PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Fugue State
1 Apr 2016
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People wake up and cannot remember a lengthy period of time. Derealization: sense that your life is a movie, you"re watching a film or your life; things don"t seem real. Depersonalization: experience your consciousness as out of your body; see yourself as someone would outside. Two or more distinct personality states; marked discontinuity in sense of self; alterations 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 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 (even though hundreds of referrals were sent)
