PSYC 2621 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Psychogenic Amnesia, Dissociative Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Chapter six dissociative disorders, somatic symptom and related disorders. Largely restricted to north america: the existence is challenged because, so few cases appear and only certain places and only investigated by certain people. Dissociative amnesia is the most common type of dissociative disorder: aka as psychogenic amnesia, the person becomes unable to recall important personal information. Usually involving traumatic or stressful experiences in a way that forgetfulness cannot be accounted for. Localized amnesia- specified time period forgotten that is part of a traumatic or stressful event: selective amnesia- people forget specifics of what happened, generalized amnesia- complete amnesia. Rare: continuous amnesia forget everything that happened in a particular time period, systemized amnesia- a particular category forgotten. Falsely claiming amnesia as a way of escaping responsibility is called malingering. A rare type of dissociative amnesia is fugue or a(cid:373)(cid:374)esia o(cid:374) the ru(cid:374). A perso(cid:374) will sudde(cid:374)ly (cid:858)forget(cid:859) their own details and end up wandering somewhere else.
