PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Malingering, Psychological Intervention, Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Allison Jane Ouimet

Document Summary

Many of these disorders are not well understood: causes and prevalence not precise. Debate whether these are real disorders or not. Presence of persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalisation or derealisation, or both: deperso(cid:374)alisatio(cid:374) is feeli(cid:374)g deta(cid:272)hed fro(cid:373) o(cid:374)e"s (cid:271)ody, derealisation is feeling detached from the world (dream) During the depersonalisation or derealisation experiences, reality testing remains intact: people know this is real yet still feel that way. Some evidence that people with this disorder tend to be a little emotionally numb. Not due to anything else: panic attacks and ptsd symptoms include both of these. Inability to recall important autobiographical information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting: age, relationship status, school, etc. Most often localized or selective: certain years, certain situations. Can be generalized for identity and life history: forget whole childhood, etc. Rare for this disorder to occur without other symptoms that would point towards another disorder.