PSY240H1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 9: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Fugue State

• School: UTSG
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY240H1
• Professor: alexander Daros

Document Summary

Lecture 9, chapter 6 & 15: dissociative and somatic symptom and related disorders, dissociative disorders, disruption of thoughts, identity, consciousness, and memory, dissociation = detachment. Types: dissociative amnesia, depersonalization / derealization, dissociative identity disorder. Individuals do not have a sense of consciousness and sense of self: dissociation: imagination, completely forgetting where one is at some points. Prevalence: common among psychiatric patients, not as common among general population, prevalence is 15-21, prevalence is 9%, men and women at equal risk, slightly more common in younger than older adults. Inability to recall personal information: occurs following a traumatic event, acute or chronic, dsm-v patterns of memory loss, localized amnesia: speci c time period. Localized time before trauma: selective amnesia: some patterns of memory loss. Selective memory loss to the time period: generalized amnesia: generalized to any, continuous amnesia: forgetting what happened from speci c time period until present, dissociative amnesia, dissociative amnesia: Features: systematized amnesia: selective to certain categories.