PSY240H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Fugue State
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Dissociative disorders & disorders of childhood and adolescence. )nvolve some sort of dissociation, or separation, of a part of the person"s consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behaviour: symptoms often experienced as, unbidden intrusions into awareness and behaviours. Inability to access information or control mental functions: dissociative identity disorder, dissociative amnesia, depersonalization/derealization disorder, other specified dissociative disorder, unspecified dissociative disorder. Dissociative amnesia: occurs when a traumatic event or stressful circumstance results in a sudden partial or total loss of important personal information or memory of a specific event, localized amnesia is most common form. Dissociative identity disorder: diagnostic controversy, before the case of sybil became popularized in a movie and books in the 1970s, fewer than 200 cases reported worldwide, now, thousands of new cases reported. Increasing prevalence, faking or clinician bias/invalid assessment tools/use of therapeutic techniques: need objective tests that are difficult to fake, comorbidity with other psychological disorders.
