PSYO 2220 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Hypnotic Susceptibility, Somatization, Suggestibility
14 Jan 2016
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Chapter 6 textbook notes (p. 200 215) Dissociatiative expereinces: feeling detached from yourself or your surroundings, almost as if you are dreaming or living in slow motion. Dissociation is most likely to happen after an extremely stressful event, such as an accident: may also happen when very tired or under physical or mental pressure from, say, staying up all night cramming for an exam. Derealization: an individuals sense of the reality of the external world is lost: things may seem to change shape or size; people may seem dead or mechanical. Symptoms of unreality are characteristic of the dissociative disorders because depersonalization is, in a sense, a psychological mechanism whereby one dissociates from reality. Disintegrated experience: in each case there are alterations in our relationship to the self, to the world, and to our memory processes. Depersonalization is often part of a serious set of conditions where reality, experience, and even our own identity seem to disintegrate.
