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Essentials of Understanding Abnormal Behavior
David Sue , Western Washington University
Derald Wing Sue , Teacher's College
Stanley Sue , University of California, Davis
Chapter 5: Dissociative Disorders and Somatoform Disorders
ON THE INTERNET

http://www.brown.edu/Administration/George_Street_Journal/v22/v22n5/dysmorph.html is a text only site that defines and discusses treating body dysmorphic disorder.

http://www.emedicine.com/emerg/topic112.htm This site consists of material on conversion disorder, including diagnostic criteria, statistics on the prevalence of the disorder, and treatment.

http://www.emedicine.com/med/topic3527.htm This site consists of material on somatoform disorders, including diagnostic criteria, prevalence, treatment, and other useful and interesting information.

http://home.att.net/~boyym/Main.html An in-depth inside look at DID/MPD with excellent resources for understanding the disorder, finding a good therapist, and seeing DID as a survival mechanism.

http://www.issd.org/index.html The site for the International Society for the Study of Dissociation, which offers important information and resources about dissociative disorders.

http://www.issd.org/indexpage/isdguide.htm. Contains guidelines for treating dissociative identity disorder (DID).

http://www.medhelp.org/HealthTopics/Conversion_Disorder.html Offers links to FAQs about conversion disorder.

http://mental-health-matters.com is the Mental Health Matters home page, which offers information and links for mental health, self-help, and psychology information and resources.

http://www.merck.com/pubs/mmanual/section15/chapter186/186a.htm This is chapter 186 of the Merck Manual of Diagnosis and Treatment that deals with somatoform disorders.

http://www.sidran.org/ is the Web site for The Sidran Foundation, which focuses on trauma and trauma-related disorders. It provides a glossary of dissociative disorder terms, a brochure on dissociative identity disorder, as well as tips for survivors and an article on the effects of dissociative identity disorder on children of trauma survivors.

http://www.vanderbilt.edu/AnS/psychology/health_psychology/BI_Therapy.htm Discusses the research on body dysmorphic disorder.



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