PSYC 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Philippe Pinel, Psychogenic Amnesia

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 102
• Professor: Russell Day

Document Summary

Labeled as abnormal if: distressing to the individual, or to others interacting with the individual, dysfunctional, maladaptive, self-defeating, it is regarded as socially deviant in the negative sense. Standardized way of describing the behaviors and labeling the cluster of behaviors as part of the diagnosis: biopsychosocial perspective, categories to dimensions, research focus. Challenges: labels, negative stereotypes & stigma, self-perception. Types: generalized anxiety, panic disorder, phobias, obsessive-compulsive disorder. Types: psychogenic amnesia, fugue loss of identity, depersonalization. Ptsd: severe anxiety & psychological arousal (distress, flashbacks, nightmares painful, frightening, reliving the events, flattening (deadening, numbing) of emotional experiences, avoidance of trigger" locations, events that might trigger flashbacks. Inability to focus attention is a common symptom. Feeling of worthlessness or excessive or inappropriate guilt (ned) Diminished ability to think or concentrate, or indecisiveness (ned) Recurrent thoughts of death (not just fear of dying), recurrent suicidal ideation without a specific plan, or a suicide attempt or a specific plan for committing suicide.