PSYCH 3830 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Method Acting, Panic Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder
9 May 2018
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Lecture 1 - Friday February 2
DISSOCIATIVE DISORDERS
- primary complaint is that what is happening to them isn’t real, they aren’t real
- someone else in charge.
- the person feels dissociated or removed from everything that is happening
1. Dissociative Amnesia - the person has an inability to recall important autobiographical
information (important personal information). It is usually of a traumatic or stressful
nature.
○ IT IS NOT
i. “damnit what’s the definition of this word on the test” (this is just
forgetting). Inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
ii. Does not include getting drunk or getting hit on the head then forgetting
something. It comes from something stress related
○ IT IS
i. Needs to be a detail in your life that is important to you.
ii. Causes clinically significant stressor or impairment (general rule for all
disorders in this class)
iii. Single biggest thing they have to be upset about
iv. With or without dissociative fugue - apparently purposeful wandering,
associated with amnesia. (google definition - sudden and unplanned
travel away from home).
1. A treatment may be to tell people about their situation so that
people will be able to find them or know who they are.
2. Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder - comparable to panic disorder. The person
has persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalization or derealization or both.
○ Depersonalization - They have an experience of feeling unreal, unattached from
their body as if they are not a real human being, feeling like an outside observer
of themselves, distorted sense of time
○ Derealization - feeling like you are not in the situation. Experiences things as
visually distorted, not in a real situation
i. Reality testing remains intact. They don’t think they’ve been attacked by
alien or literally watching themselves. This is all a metaphor.
ii. Not having good reality testing would be: thinking the CIA has controlled
your mind
○ Causes clinically significant stressor or impairment (general rule for all disorders
in this class)
○ NOT because they’re high or medication
3. Dissociative Identity Disorder -
- most serious of these disorders/controversial.
- Multiple Personality Disorder but VERY different from schizophrenia. Disruption of
identity. Multiple personality states
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Document Summary
It is usually of a traumatic or stressful nature. Damnit what"s the definition of this word on the test (this is just forgetting). Inconsistent with ordinary forgetting: does not include getting drunk or getting hit on the head then forgetting something. It is: needs to be a detail in your life that is important to you, causes clinically significant stressor or impairment (general rule for all disorders in this class) The person has persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalization or derealization or both. Depersonalization - they have an experience of feeling unreal, unattached from their body as if they are not a real human being, feeling like an outside observer of themselves, distorted sense of time. Derealization - feeling like you are not in the situation. Experiences things as visually distorted, not in a real situation: reality testing remains intact. They don"t think they"ve been attacked by alien or literally watching themselves.
