Psychoneurosis

1. Group 8 Presentation: Carmella Anne Garcia Shara Jane Clayton Christina Sabangan Psychoneurosis neurosis

2. 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 tension, resulting from frustration, conflicts, repression or insecurity. Based on emotional conflict. Psychoneurosis

3. 1. Anxiety Common Behavior and Characteristics: 2. Inability 3. Rigid or Repetitive behavior 4. Egocentricity 5. Hypersensitivity

4. 7 . Somatic Complaints 8. Unhappiness 9. Unconsciously motivated behavior 6. Immaturity

5. 1. Predisposing, possibly constitutional factors. Causes of Neurotic Reaction: 2. Childhood development patterns. 3. Life situation that precipitated the reactions 4. Cultural Factors.

6. I. Anxiety 3 GeneraL Group: Reaction is built on lifetime pattern of insecurity and immaturity . were always tense, worried, easily upset and preoccupied with future calamities .

7. Types of Anxiety : 1. Neurasthenia Loss of interest in the surrounding or life situation severe symptoms Along with headaches, backaches, dizzy, spells, bilious attack and indigestion. Lacking of energy, complaints of being tired, chronic fatigability, chronic irritability & inability to concentrate.

8. 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 husband’s 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. Example:

9. 2. Hypochondria suffering of being greatly exaggerated, isolated and immature, self-centered personality . Example: 1. Story of An Emo Kid 2. Ovreprotective parents

10. People whose parents were over protective, who showed too much concern about their child’s health are prone to Hypochondrial reactions. Feelings of inadequacy and lack of fulfillment also predispose some people to this type of reaction and like the neurasthenic type. Secondary gains accrue to the patient through attention-getting efforts.

11. 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.  

12. 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

13. 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.

14. 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 .

15. III. Psychastenia a psychoneurotic condition accompanied by a vast range of mental & emotional symptoms which cannot be controlled .     Reasons and Symptoms: unreasonable dreads/phobias, obsession and compulsion unreasonable elation, constant depression or over inhibition .

16. 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: a. Reasons for the fear do not make sense. b . The fear paralyzes instead of enhances the ability to deal with the problem. c. The fear seems to be caused by the threat of discharged of self destructive aggression.

17. 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

18. 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.

19. Psychodynamics of obsession : a. The origin of the obsession is from an early 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.

20. 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 one’s own life.

21. Other Types: II. Operational Fatigue or War Neurosis Inappropriate symptom pattern is manifested in a situation where the individual fears for his/her safety . I. Traumatic Neurosis Manifested in response to a battle environment it is reactive state resulting from

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