Raskin - Chapter 8

Difficulty naming, describing, or expressing emotions verbally.

Any of the personalities present in dissociative identity disorder; each one is referred to as an “alter.”

Lymphocytes that produce antibodies, which attack invading viruses and bacteria to stop them from entering cells.

Breathing and other exercises intended to enhance bodily awareness.

Technique in which patients are hooked up to a machine that measures one or more biological functions (e.g., heart rate, breathing rate, muscle tension, or temperature); patients are reinforced for desired changes to these biological functions; used to help reinforce patients with psychosomatic illnesses for altering biological functions they typically assume they have little control over.

ICD-11 characterized by physical symptoms that the person finds distressing and pays excessive attention to; even when the symptoms have a physical explanation, worry about them is excessive and the person cannot be reassured, even by doctors; roughly equivalent to the DSM-5’s somatic symptom disorder.

Incorporate dance, meditation, martial arts, yoga, and awareness through movement techniques into the therapeutic encounter.

Reich’s idea that the physical postures people adopt—including how they walk, talk, breathe, and carry themselves—tell us a great deal about their psychological functioning; also called body armor.

DSM-5 somatic symptom diagnosis that involves physical loss or alteration for which there is no known neurological or medical explanation; also called functional neurological symptom disorder.

DSM-5 and ICD-11 dissociative disorder diagnosed in those who experience depersonalization, derealization, or both; called depersonalization/derealization syndrome in ICD-10.

Maintains that psychosomatic illness emerges from a combination of diathesis (a predisposing biological vulnerability) and stress.

DSM-5, ICD-10, and ICD-11 dissociative disorder that involves difficulty recalling important autobiographical information; diagnosed with or without fugue in DSM-5 and ICD-11.

ICD-10 term for conversion disorder; see also dissociative neurological symptom disorder, its ICD-11 equivalent.

ICD-10 dissociative disorder in which a person experiences dissociative amnesia, leaves home, travels to a new location, and establishes a new identity; considered a subtype of dissociative amnesia in DSM-5 and ICD-11.

DSM-5 and ICD-11 dissociative disorder describing people who have two or more distinct “personalities,” with only one being present at any given time; called multiple personality disorder in ICD-10. (