PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Everytime, Partial Seizure, Insomnia

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mark Coates

Document Summary

Dissociative disorders: disruption of the usual functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception, not all dissociation is pathological (daydreaming, time passing while driving, dsm-iv-tr diagnoses: The predominant disturbance is one or more episodes of inability to recall important personal information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. Not due to neurological changes or ordinary forgetfulness. Memory for non-personal information is usually intact. If they do forget it forever its called chronic dissociative amnesia: subtypes: Selective parts of the trauma but not others. Generalized all personal information from past. Continuous all personal information from a certain point in the past. Systematized certain categories of information: prevalence of dissociative amnesia is unknown. Local: one period of time the person has no memories for usually involving the trauma: selective: remembering some bits of the trama but not all. Something bad happened at this house but i dont remember what it is.