Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 33: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Fugue State

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Dr.Mike

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To avoid troubling thoughts, feelings or memories remove from conscious awareness. Repressing who you are, as you repress you lose track of your personality. Paient unable to remember speciic events, ime in life, or idenity. Forget who they are, how they arrived from what they were doing. Paient wanders from home: develops new idenity, become somebody else. Paient develops 2 or more separate ideniies that co-exist: under stress paient switches from one idenity to another o. Criteria: did: 2 or more disinct ideniies, at least 2 of these ideniies recurrently take control of behaviour, amnesia for important personal data, not due to substance abuse. 92% female normal educaion background 37% college, 88% high school. 49% married and living with spouse: max number of ideniies = 60 o considerable co-morbidity in essence you see a bunch of other problems that go with the disorder. Case studies o o alternated in taking over nancy. Lillian was a seducive woman, sly, sexual person.