psych2260 Ch V & VI
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- phobia
- disrupting, fear-mediated avoidance that is out of proportaio to the danger posed by particular object or situation and is recognized by the sufferer as groundless (fear of heights, etc) theripists focus on the content of the phobia; the object being a symbol of the fear
- specific phobias
- unwarranted fears caused by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation
- acrophobia
- fear of heights --> think ACRObat
- agoraphobia
- fear of public places
- claustrophobia
- fear of closed spaces
- ergaiophobia
- fear of writing
- pnigophonia
- fear of choking
- taphephobia
- fear of being buried alive
- social phobias
- (social anxiety disorder) a persistent, irrational fear generally linked to the presence of other people
- Etiology
- factors/causes contributing to the development of a disorder/disease
- autonomic lability
- the extent to which the ANS (autonomic nervous system) involved in fear and thus phobic behavior
- panic & generalized anxiety disorders
- sudden and often inexplicable attack of a host of jarring symptoms: labored breathing, heart palpitation, nausea, chest (and shoulder/arm) pains, feelings of choking and smothering, dizziness, seating and trembling and intense apprehension, terror and feelings of impending doom
- depersonalization
- feelings of being outside one's body
- derealization
- feelings of the world's not being real, losing control
- Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder
- an anxiety disorder in which the mind is flodded with persistent and uncontrollable thoughts or the individual is compelled to repreat certain acta again and again, causing significant distress and interference with normal everyday functioning
- obsessions
- intrusive and recurring thoughts, impulses and images that come unbidden to the mind and appear irrational and uncontrollable to the individual having them
- compulsion
- a repetitive behavior or mental act that the the person feels driven to perfrom in order to prevent some calmity from occuring (excessive and unrealistic activity)
- Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
- extreme response to a sever stressor, including increased anxiety, avoidance or stimuli associated with the trauma and a numbing of emotional response (very often much later, and repetitively, after the initial traumatic experience)
- PTSD Reexperiencing traumatic event
- frequently recalling the even and experiencing nightmares about it
- catharsis
- (drug assisted) sedation (sodium pentothal) then therapist recounted the traumatic event to the client; thu he/she relived the event, discussed its horrors and then when awake again, made to realize the past-tense nature
- group-therapy
- also somewhat cathartic, since the revelations/exposure is now done with other patients at the same time