Health Sciences 4092F/G Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Depersonalization, Disconnection, Personality Disorder
12 Apr 2021
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Depersonalization: a persistent sense of unreality about one"s sense of self, detaching from the self, as though the person has stepped outside of or away from their own self. The failure to test reality and uphold proper boundaries between self and other is more widespread than usually acknowledged. Indeed, according to rudegeair and farrelly (2008), the concepts of psychosis and dissociation may be interchangeable in that both acts as psychological defence mechanisms for when experience is overwhelming, and escape is the most protective thing. Ideally we will, somehow, be able to experience some kind of resolution of these conflicts, to at least some level of satisfaction: this is essentially sense making/meaning making, for many reasons, ideal is not always achieved. In fact, quite often it"s not achieved: when it"s not, an internal conflict results within the self. In these instances, the person might start to experience what are referred to as.
