PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Mediumship, Etiology, Handedness

• School: McMaster University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 2AP3
• Professor: Richard B Day

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Dissociative disorde r: a distancing of an individual from reality; some lost of contact with memory of the past, not hallucination or illusion. I(cid:374)di(cid:448)idual(cid:859)s i(cid:374)a(cid:271)ility to re(cid:373)e(cid:373)(cid:271)er a period i(cid:374) the past: usually does not last long; usually a few hours, dissociative fugue. Two or more distinct personality states; marked discontinuity in sense of self; alternations in affect, behaviour, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning. It is primary suggested to the patient that they have these symptoms. Dissociative disorder: only 77 cases between 1791 and 1962 (cid:862)three fa(cid:272)es of e(cid:448)e(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)5(cid:1011)(cid:895) (cid:894)thigpe(cid:374) & cli(cid:272)kley(cid:895) Story of women who exhibits 3 different personality. 171 outcome analyses in 1984 (kluft 1984: dramatic upsurge of cases: coincide with intense increase number of childhood sexual abuse. 1986: first scholarly monographs: teacher, relatives, most of the people with did report to have lost memory of sexual childhood abuse.