preoccupation with health and excessive worry about serious illness; at least 12 months

reporting and reacting to pain or other distressing physical or bodily symptoms; at least 12 months

preoccupation with health and excessive worry about serious illness; at least 6 months

reporting and reacting to pain or other distressing physical or bodily symptoms; at least 6 months

Acts of pyromania are done to express anger.

Before the fire is set, there is tension, with a resolving relief once the fire is set.

It is a deliberate act of setting fires more than once.

The individual will exhibit a fascination and attraction to fire and any objects associated with it.

Dissociative Identity Disorder is characterised by a disruption in identity that involves a marked discontinuity in an individual’s sense of self and sense of agency.

Derealisation Disorder is characterised by experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to one’s surroundings.

Dissociative Amnesia with Dissociative Fugue is characterised by an inability to recall autobiographical information, identity confusion and a sudden departure to a new area.

Depersonalisation Disorder is characterised by an impairment in reality testing that results in experiences of unreality, detachment or being an outside observer with respect to one’s thoughts, feelings, sensations or actions. 

differential diagnosis 

remission

specifier

prognosis

psychoanalytic

behaviouristic 

family systems

cognitive

An inability to remember certain details of an incident.

Perceptions that his body and environment are unreal.

Vague and diverse physical symptoms such as nausea and headache.

Confusion about his identity and travelling to another city.

Reduced availability of serotonin and glutamate; cognitive distortions; controlling or critical parenting; demographically equally common in males and females.

Increased activity in the orbitofrontal cortex; lack of trust in one’s performance; anxiety reduction; controlling or critical parenting.

enduring; flexible, pervasive

logical; flexible; contained

logical; inflexible; different

enduring; inflexible; pervasive 

Obsessive-compulsive disorder

Excoriation Disorder 

Body Dysmorphic Disorder

Factitious Disorder 

Separation Anxiety Disorder; Selective Mutism

Reactive Attachment Disorder; Communication Disorder

Dependent Personality Disorder; Social Anxiety Disorder (Social Phobia)

Generalised Anxiety Disorder; Oppositional Defiant Disorder