PSY 245 Lecture Notes - Lecture 25: Psych, Psy, Partial Seizure

• School: Tunxis Community College
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 245
• Professor: lauretano

Document Summary

Dissociative symptoms and sudden changes in personality. Change may be attributed to possession by a spirit. Only considered a disorder if leads to distress or impairment. Adoption of several new identities (as many. Identities display unique behaviors, voice, and postures as 100; may be just a few; average is 15) A. disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states, which may be described in some cultures as an experience of possession. The disruption of marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning. These signs and symptoms may be observed by others or reported by the individual. B. recurrent gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. C. the symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.