PSYCH257 Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Demand Characteristics, Amobarbital, Factitious Disorder
25 Mar 2017
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Dissociative identity disorder: individual has 2 or more distinct identities that alternate control of his or her behaviour. Somatic symptom disorder: long standing beliefs that they have a serious illness, resulting in excessive anxiety and dysfunction. Both these disorders may be a result of maladaptive. Dissociative and somatic disorders were once viewed as expressions of hysteria (overdramatic or attention seeking behaviour, shallow volatile emotions) Characterized by severe maladaptive disruptions or alterations of identity, memory, and consciousness that are experienced as being beyond one"s control. Dissociation: the lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings and experiences in consciousness and memory. For people with dissociative disorders they may not know their name, where they live or what they do as a job. Inability to recall important personal information, quite often these people will leave their homes and end up in a city with no memory of their past. Dissociative identity disorder: presence of 2 or more personalities i.
