01:830:220 Lecture Notes - Lecture 19: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychoanalysis, Amygdala
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Hard to understand how someone"s mind can be separated from the body. The symptoms of dissociative disorders are characterized by persistent, maladaptive disruption in the integration of memory, consciousness, or identity. With physical amnesia, there is a physiological lesion in the brain. Can be classically conditioned to intrinsically know what is dangerous. Conscious awareness and unconscious processes in brain. Can only focus on one thing at a time, but can hold 7 pieces of info at a time. Confused and travel long distances from home not knowing who they are. Existence of two or more personalities in one person. Psychoanalytic therapy tries to find the source of the disorder. Repression: disturbing impulses are blocked from consciousness. Dissociation: separation & independent functioning of 1 group of mental processes from others-(mental contents exist in parallel consciousness) And in the manner of the true hero, she must choose to take the risk . When i woke up on tuesday, it was friday .
