PSYCH 215 Lecture 9: Dissociative Disorder

• School: UMass Boston
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYCH 215
• Professor: Elizabeth Eustis

Document Summary

Dissociative disorder: dissociative disorders: some part of memory or identity is dissociated or separated from other parts of memory or identity, triggered by traumatic events, dissociative amnesia, dissociative identity disorder (did, depersonalization-derealization disorder. Symptoms not due to substance or medical condition: dissociative fugue, travelling to a new location. Dissociative identity disorder (did: disruption of identity, characterized by 2+ distinct personality states, recurrent gaps in recall of everyday events, important personal information, and/or traumatic events, beyond ordinary forgetting. Symptoms not due to substance or medical condition: prevalence unclear (some est. 1%: controversial diagnosis, women receive diagnosis 3 times as often as men. Interactions: alternates, switching: when one personality recedes and the other is present. Treatment: typically people do not recover without treatment, treatment focuses on, recognizing the nature of the disorder, therapist bonds with subpersonalities. Increase awareness of different personalities: recovering memories. Integrating/fusion the subpersonalities: can be resistance to this, coping skills for future dissociation.