chapter 9

Question 1

25) Hysteria

Answer 1

(from the Greek word meaning uterus) a mysterious “disease of the uterus” often diagnosed in women until early in the 20th century, marked by fainting or fits and a variety of symptoms such as loss of voice or partial paralysis, with no apparent physical cause.

Question 2

26) Gender-specific medicine

Answer 2

a new branch of medicine in which the focus is on how diseases and treatment may progress differently for women and men.

Question 3

27) Depression

Answer 3

a mental illness signaled by feelings of extreme sadness and hopelessness and by a loss of interest in most activities

Question 4

Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD)

Answer 4

a disorder caused by a traumatic event that is characterized by anxiety, depression, flashbacks, nightmares, and somatic symptoms.

Question 5

28) Anorexia nervosa

Answer 5

a mental disorder that involves self-starvation in an effort to maintain an unrealistically low body weight, characterized by an intense fear of becoming obese and by a disturbed body image, a tendency to “feel fat” even when severely underweight.

Question 6

29) Bulimia nervosa

Answer 6

a mental disorder characterized by an obsession with food and with body weight, involving a pattern of “binge” overeating followed by self-induced “purging” through a variety of means, including dieting, vomiting, or laxatives.

Question 7

30) Specific phobias

Answer 7

a persistent, irrational fear of and desire to avoid specific objects, activities, or situations.

Question 8

31) Agoraphobia

Answer 8

a persistent, irrational fear of being in public places from which escape might be difficult or in which help might be unavailable in case of sudden incapacitation.

Question 9

32) Antisocial personality disorder

Answer 9

a mental disorder characterized by a lack of ethical or moral sensitivity and the absence of guilt or anxiety about hurting others.

Question 10

33) Late luteal phase dysphoric disorder

Answer 10

an earlier label for premenstrual dysphoric disorder, a formal diagnosis included in an appendix of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of the American Psychiatric Association that lists a set of psychological symptoms that may occur during the week prior to menstruation.

Question 11

34) Stressors

Answer 11

– the external events or conditions that are appraised as threatening by an individual and thus are the source of upset, worry, discomfort and general distress