PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia
19 Sep 2016
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Disturbance or alteration in identity, memory or consciousness. Basic pattern: disturbance or alteration in identity, memory or consciousness. Involves the removal of a cluster of associated mental elements from one"s conscious awareness and/or conscious wilful control. Generally involves alteration in sense of identity. Largest group of cases occur during wartime or in connection with combat or extreme stress. Dissociative amnesia loses memory for period of time (could be longer in rare cases: usually brief, no longer than a day, usually triggered by stressful event (fight, etc. ) Dissociative identity disorder: mpd name changed because suggests person has multiple complete personalities (most people don"t enough experience for this, personality fragments instead. Depersonalization feeling like one is not in one"s body: objective entity wandering in world. Dissociative disorder not other otherwise specified (nos: do not meet other criteria for this disorder, most controversial category in dsm (more than half psychiatrists in north.
