Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dsm-5, False Memory Syndrome

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Maiolino

Document Summary

Viewed in some cultures as an experience of. Marked discontinuity in sense of self, accompanied by alterations in affect, behaviour, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor function: recurrent gaps in recall of everyday events, important, typical clinical description personal information, and/or traumatic events. Person has two or more distinct identities or. Different identities recurrently take control of the personality states. person"s behaviour. Usually there"s a host", which is a persons main idea, and goes by their real name. Host is often more passive, dependent, guilty, or depressed personality. Dissociative identity disorder (did) > dsm-5 diagnostic. Criteria: disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct. Inability to recall important information that is too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness: associated features. Often report severe physical and sexual abuse in childhood. High rates of comorbidity- depression, anxiety, bpd, suicide, substance abuse, ptsd, eating disorders. Usually highly hypnotizable, dissociative tendency (suggestable): course.