PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Psychophysiology, Conversion Disorder
10 Nov 2016
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Psy3171b - lecture 14: somatic and dissociative disorders. Derealization/depersonalization disorder: the presence of persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalization, derealization, or both, depersonalization. Sense that you"re detached from yourself; watching it from outside of your body. Emotional or physical numbing; happening to you but you aren"t experiencing it. Time feels like it"s going really slowly: derealization. What"s going on around you isn"t real (felt like a dream/play/movie) See things visually distorted: during the depersonalization of derealization experiences, reality testing remains intact. Depersonalization and derealization a way of coping with trauma. Some evidence that people with this disorder tend to be emotionally numb. An inability to recall important autobiographical information (things about yourself), usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. Note: most often localized or selective; or generalized for identity and life history. Usually people with this kind of problem have history with trauma.
