Psychology 2310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fugue State, Somatic Symptom Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Albert N Katz

Document Summary

Dissociative disorders severe maladaptive disruptions or alterations of identity, memory, and consciousness that are experienced beyond one"s control. Some people are more prone to dissociation (checking out), becomes an issue when it affects everyday life (acting as different people) Dissociative amnesia inability to recall significant personal information in the absence of an actual reason for the impairment (typically follows a traumatic event) Fails to recall information from a specific time period. Person forgets all person information from past. Forgets specific information from date until present. Person only forgets certain categories of information such as people or places. Dissociative fugue extremely rare, individuals don"t act that different when they are in this state. Forget autobiographical information and travel unexpectedly away from home. Comorbid with mood disorders, did, and substance abuse. Interesting because there was not severe stress that media was informed of.