PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Body Dysmorphic Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fugue State
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Secondary gain: most common form of secondary gain having compensation. No physical symptoms are necessary (woody allen) Excessive concern with real or imagined defects in appearance. Co-morbid with taking steroids and working out in men. Not on dsm and not necessarily seen as a clinical level disorder. Do(cid:374)"t portra(cid:455) (cid:455)ourself the wa(cid:455) that (cid:455)ou a(cid:272)tuall(cid:455) are (cid:862)this is (cid:374)ot the real (cid:455)ou(cid:863) Not somatoform, because you have consciously made it up. People lose contact with the portions of their consciousness. Often results in loss of sense of identity not loss of sense of reality. Dissociative fugue: loss of memory of entire life. Involves the co-existence in one person of 2 or more largely different but largely complete personalities. What is the trigger to make them change from one personality to another: not clear, but probably stressed. Went from being less prevalent to more prevalent because psychologists wanna make more money.
