PSYC 350 Study Guide - Classic Case, Bipolar Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder

• School: University of Kansas
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 350
• Professor: All

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Psyc 350 - exam #2 review dissociative disorders. Dissociative disorder not aware of, or lose contact with, important aspects of their memories or personalities. Depersonalization feelings of being detached from one"s body or mental processes. A common experience (~30% of people have these experiences, but it is not actually a disorder. Dissociative amnesia a sudden inability to remember important personal information or events. Dissociative fugue patient travels to a new location, amnesia for previous experiences and identity, and the development of a new identity. No sign of a psychiatric disorder during the fugue. After the fugue, the original identity returns, and there are no memories that occurred before the fugue. * there is actually no proof for this type of amnesia, this repression of memories. However, there is evidence that amnesia does occur; it is due to a physiological cause (e. g. brain trauma etc. )