PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Handedness, Etiology, Depersonalization
8 Dec 2015
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Depersonalization/derealization disorder: derealization the sense that your life is a movie, things, depersonalization a sense of derealization about yourself, around you don"t feel real being outside of your body experiences. Two or more distinct personality states; marked discontinuity in the sense of self; alternations in affect, behaviour, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning. Recurring gaps in the recall of events, personal information, and/or traumatic events, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. Symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning. Disturbance not part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice, and (in children) not due to imaginative play. Disturbance not due to effects of a substance (e. g. , alcohol) or to another medical condition. Only 77 cases between 1791 and 1962. Three faces of eve (1957) thigpen & cleckley: 25 years later, no additional case seen. 8 did cases in 1944-70; 36 from 1970-79. 100 did cases in treatment in 1982.
