Psychoneurosis
Psychoneurosis
Psychoneurosis
neurosis
Group 8 Presentation:
Carmella Anne Garcia
Shara Jane Clayton
Christina Sabangan
Psychoneurosis
Plural form: Psychoneuroses or Neuroses.
Prefix Psycho was added some decades later
when it
became clear that mental and
emotional factors were important in the etiology
of these disorder
Behavioral disorder brought about by emotional
Common
Behavior and
Characteristics:
1. Anxiety
2. Inability
3. Rigid or Repetitive behavior
4. Egocentricity
5. Hypersensitivity
6. Immaturity
7. Somatic Complaints
8. Unhappiness
9. Unconsciously motivated
behavior
3 GeneraL Group:
I.
Anxiety
Reaction is built on lifetime pattern of
insecurity and immaturity.
were always tense, worried, easily upset and
preoccupied with future calamities.
Types of
Anxiety:
1.
Loss of interest in the surrounding
Neurasthenia
or life situation severe symptoms
Example:
A middle-aged wife of a successful businessman
who develops vague aches & pains, marked
feelings of fatigue & insomnia to extent that she is
bedridden for several weeks but for which medical
examinations discussed no organic pathology.
Psychological diagnosis indicates that among other
frustration & conflicts, she had been greatly
disturbed for year. Because of her husbands lack of
affection. When she became bedridden & sick, her
husband expressed considerable sympathy and
spent more time with her. Her disabilities were used
as her mechanism for securing the desired
attention from her husband.
2. Hypochondria
suffering of being greatly
exaggerated, isolated and immature,
self-centered personality.
Example:
1. Story of An Emo
Kid
2.
Ovreprotective
parents
health
are
prone
to
Hypochondrial
II.
Hysteria
Disorder without unidentifiable physical
pathology one or more symptoms usually due to
organic limbs, intense aches and pains,
deafness, blindness, loss of voice, continuous
vomiting, head or hand tremors, anesthesia
where he/she becomes insensitive to pain and
cannot feel a needle or burn. He/she may
develop fits, seizures or faint.
Mood swings, dissociate reactions, loses his/her
identity to solve emotional crisis.
Types of
Hysteria:
1. Amnesia
Literally
means
Forgetting
Disorder which the individual cannot
recall his/her name & remembers
little or nothing about the past.
Types of Amnesia:
a. Anterograde inability to retain information which has just
been seen
or read.
b. Retrograde inability to recall any event which took place
during a
certain period of time.
c. Localized inability to recall events which are related to a
particular
situaton
2. Fugue
an amnesia state. It may last for a
few hours, days or months. It is an
escape mechanism from highly
distressful situation.
3. Somnambulism
Sleep walking is a dreamlike state
where the patient walks about and
carries on certain activities which
are not remembered later.
4. Multiple Personality
dramatic form of hysteria. Shifting
from 1 personality to another last
for from a few hours to several
months or years. It develops 2 or
more separate and
different personalities.
III.
Psychastenia
1. Phobias
irrational or exaggerated fear of an
object, person act or situation and it
may
develop
towards
any
imaginable
aspect
of
the
environment.
Characteristics:
of
self
destructive
Example:
Achluphobia/nyctophobia fear of dark
Acrophobia fear of high places
Aichmophobia fear of open paces
Algophobia fear of pain
Arachnephobia fear of spiders
Astraphobia fear of thunder, lightning & storm
Cheimophobia fear of cold
Dipsophobia fear of drinking
Ecophobia/Oikophobia fear of home
Electrophobia fear of electricity
Pathophobia fear of disease
Xenophobia fear of strangers
2. Obsession
is an idea or series of idea which
recur so frequently that it interferes
with normal thinking. The thought
continues to intrude no matter how
hard one tries and what activities
are undertaken.
Common
Osession:
Self-Accusatory Thoughts - Thought
about losing the mind, committing
immoral acts, superstitious worries,
etc.
Psychodynamics of obsession
: The origin of the obsession is from an early
a.
unpleasant experience.
b. The individual retained some painful ideas,
usually of guilt as a result of this experience.
c. Since the memory of such experience is
unbreakable it is displaced with an idea which is
more tolerable
d. The obsessional thoughts usually are only
remotely, although symbolically related to the
expressed experience.
e. Feelings of guilt & shame, as a rule are the casual
factors in obsessional thinking.
3. Compulsion
irresistible tendency to perform an
act or ritual which the individual
feels compelled to carry out even
though it is recognize as irrational.
Example:
Arithmania impulse to count everything.
Dipsomania impulse to drink liquor.
Homicidalmania impulse to kill.
Kleptomania impulse to steal.
Megalomania impulse for fame & power.
Pyromania impulse to set fire to things.
Suicidalmania impulse to take ones own
life.
Other Types:
I. Traumatic Neurosis
Inappropriate symptom pattern is
manifested in a situation where the
individual fears for his/her safety.
War
The Anxiety
Disorder
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