Anxiety Paper

Anxiety, Mood/Affextive, Dissociative/Somatoform

University of Phoenix Online

PSY/410

Anxiety, Mood, Dissociative, Somatoform Disorders

The DSM-IV-TR offers diagnostic categories and classifications for the use of identifying and diagnosing mental disorders (Hansell & Damour, 2008). In this paper are the sections of anxiety disorders, mood and affective disorders, dissociative disorders, and somatoform disorders. The likely categorizations and signs beneath these groupings will be covered. As well as, one disorder out of all categories-general anxiety disorder, cyclothymic disorder, depersonalization disorder, and body dysmorphic disorder will be analyzed.

Anxiety Disorders

The primary distinction between fear and anxiety is that fear is directed at a specific stimuli;...