PS101 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Conversion Disorder, Psychoanalysis
Somatoform Disorders
● Belief you are ill
● Belief you experience physical complaints/disabilities
● No known biological cause
● Somatic = bodily ailment
● Conversion Disorder
○ Suggests neurological problem - none present
○ Glove Anaesthesia
■ Impossible, numbness would be down arm as in second picture (on slide,
whole arm would be numb due to nerves)
Dissociative Disorders
● Dissociate = part with memory/self
● Multiple Personalities = dissociative identity disorder
Treatment of Psychological Disorders
Goals and Sources of Help
● Goal of treatment: help change maladaptive thoughts, feelings, behaviours
Resources for Therapy
● Psychologists (clinical psych degree)
● Psychiatrists (MD)
● Psychological Associates
● Counsellors
● Social Workers
● Therapists
Therapy is a Relationship
● Process of therapy
○ Relationship between client, psychologist, and technique
Types of Therapies
● Psychodynamic Therapies
○ Underlying assumption: tension between unconscious impulses and the current
constraints of life… can cause you to engage in unsafe behaviours
○ Freud’s Therapy: psychoanalysis, explore unconscious motivations and conflicts
○ Freud’s Psychoanalysis: conflicts between unconscious/irrational impulses (id)
versus harsh social constraints of superego
○ Goal: create a level of harmony in the system
○ How? → Makes you aware of the id, reduces some compliance with superego,
gives more strength to the ego (middle)
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