Distinctive Psychiatric Syndromes

Question 1

What is Reactive Attachment Disorder?

Answer 1

Emotional withdrawal, sadness, fearfulness, irritability, impaired cognition, and negative response to affection or discipline

Caused by severe impaired attachment in childhood

Question 2

What is Factitious Disorder, AKA Munchausen Syndrome?

Answer 2

Conscious effort to fake illness and seek medical attention for personal gain e.g. attention, affection, care from others
Symptoms are exaggerated or self induced
Satisfaction from puzzling medical professionals
Symptoms are inconsistent with medical investigations

Question 3

What is Alice in Wonderland Syndrome?

Answer 3

Incorrectly perceving the size of body parts or objects
Incorrectly perceiving time
Comes with intermittent migraine and aura
Causes are migraine, epilepsy, brain tumours

Question 4

What is Body Integrity Dysphoria?

Answer 4

Strong feeling that a body part does not belong to them and a desire to remove that part of the body
May come with desire to be disabled/paralsyed

Question 5

What is De Clerembault’s Syndrome AKA erotomania?

Answer 5

A delusion that a high status individual is in love with them

Question 6

What is Capgras Syndrome?

Answer 6

Delusion that an identical replica has replaced someone close to them

Question 7

What is Cotard Delusion?

Answer 7

Delusion that they are dying