PSYC 340 Study Guide - Midterm Guide: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Suggestibility, Fugue State

• School: Concordia University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 340
• Professor: Elmira Ismaylova

Document Summary

Severe abuse during childhood, fantasy life is the only escape. Characteristics: - severe/frightening feelings of detachment dominate person"s life. Affected person feels like an outside of his own mental/body process. Causes significant distress in functioning, especially emotional expression. Stresses associated with onset of disorder should be addressed. Dissociative amnesia : inability to recall important personal information, symptoms cause distress/impairment, not caused by a substance/medical disorder, not caused by another disorder. Generalized amnesia: loss of (part of) identity (forgetting name, address, etc. ) Localized/selective amnesia: failure to remember specific events at a particular time (forgetting a car crash, etc. ) Usually self-correcting when current life stress is resolved (ex: living in a movie, feeling mechanical) Dissociation/derealization disorder : presence of persistent/recurrent experiences of depersonalization, derealization, or both, reality testing remains intact, symptoms cause distress or impairment, not caused by a substance/medical disorder, not caused by another mental disorder. Depersonalization: altered perception of one self"s/one"s own reality.