PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Comorbidity, Iatrogenesis, Body Dysmorphic Disorder

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Del Rio

Document Summary

Unrealistic focus(usually face), goes to surgery but not particularly happy with result. Attaching emotional connection to objects(no objective values), have collection but don"t take care of it like true collectors. Get anxious when getting rid of items to make room livable. Often have ocd and bdd in the family, genetic components. Right after trauma not as acute as ptsd. High intelligence using coping strategies; good social network. Derealization disorder: how perceiving environment, cars in wired shapes. Dissociative amnesia: forgetting time when trauma occured, may temporary, course can be chronic, or shorter, treatment: feel com, memory come out itself. Dissociative fugue: to flee, shut down and leave when stressor. Dissociative identity disorder (did: 2 or more personalities with different ways of experiencing the world. No idea what happend in the past 2 days because another alter take over. Long-term, severe trauma: develop very early, usually before 5 (when personality develops, experiencing headache because of the switching, course : lifelong.