panic disorder
sudden attacks of severe, overwhelming anxiety without an indentifiable cause
phobia
intense, unreasonable fear of a specific thing or situation or even the thought of it
acr/o-
extremity, highest point
acrophobia
fear of heights
agoraphobia
fear of crowds or public places
agor/a-
open areas or space
arachnophobia
fear of spiders
arachn/o-
spider, spider web
claustrophobia
fear of closed-in spaces
claustr/o-
enclosed space
mirophobia
fear of germs
ophidiophobia
fear of snakes
ophidi/o-
snake
soci/o-
human beings; community
thanatophobia
fear of death
thanat/o-
death
xenophobia
fear of strangers
xen/o-
foreign
post traumatic stress disorder (PTSD)
continuing, disabling reaction to an excessively traumatic situation or event
Bipolar Disorder
chronic mood swings between mania and depression, extreme happiness and then swings of severe depression
Psychosis
loss of touch with reality
Delusional disorder
continued false beliefs concerning events of everyday life that are fixed and unchanged despite the efforts of others to persuade or evidence
Schizophrenia
chronic loss of touch with reality in most or all aspects of life with bizarre behviorr
Oppositional defiant disorder
persistent aggressive behavior defiance of and refusal to obey rules, disrespect for authority figures, with anger, stubbornness and touchiness
Tourette’s syndrome
frequent, spontaneous, invultary movement tics (throat clearing, eye blinking) and vocal tics (grunts, barks) and comments that are socially inappropriate vulgar or obsecene, or racial
Exhibitionisn
obtaining power, control and sexual arousal by exposing the genital area in public areas to strangers
Fetishism
obtaining sexual arousal from objects rather than a person
Rape
obtaining power, control and sexual arousal from forces sexual intercourse with a noncensting adult
Sadism
obtaining power, control, and sexual arousal by deliberately causing abuse, pain, humiliation, or bondage to another person
Transsexualism
person’s beliefs that he or she has been assigened to the wrong sexual identlty
Transvestism
obtaining sexual arousal by wearing clothes belonging to the opposite sex or posing as someone of the opposite sex
Voyeurism
practice in which an individual derives sexual pleasure from observing other people
Munchausen syndrome
exhibiting factitious medical or psychiatric symptoms; patients are aware that they are lying, but are unaware that their motivation is the desire fo assistance, attention, pity, and being exucsed from the normal expectations of life
Depersonalization
loss of connection between personal thoughts and sense of self and the environment
Fufue state
abandonment of personal identity, along with the memories
Rorschach test
inkblot test, using cards, patients is asked to describe what the inkblot shapes mean to them
Hypnosis
sleeplike trance, patient is still able to remember who htey are and what is happening