PSYC 241 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Fugue State, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 241
• Professor: Shannon Zaitsoff

Document Summary

P s yc 241 we e k 6 (lec ture) Dis s o c iative & s o matic s ymp to m and r e late d dis o r de r s. Involve severe disturbances of identity, memory, and consciousness: involve sort of a break from yourself and your environment and experiences in conscious memory. Individuals have physical symptoms for which there is no biological basis. Similarities: these show a similarity in that they are a response to stressful situation, lots of comorbidity between the two. Dis s oc iative dis orders: characterized by severe disturbances of identity, memory, and consciousness. Include: depersonalization disorder, dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder. 2: the disorder occurs most frequently in adolescents and young adults, hardly ever in people older than 40, the disorder comes on suddenly and tends to be long-lasting, few theories have been offered to explain this disorder. Treatment of did: three stages of psychotherapy, 1.