PSY 3171 Final: Final

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

Document Summary

1: the presence of persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalization, derealisation, or both: Depersonalization: experiences of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer with respect to one"s thoughts, feelings, sensations, body or actions (ex: perceptual alterations, distorted sense of time, unreal or absent self, emotional and/or physical numbing) Derealisation: experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings (ex: individuals or objects are experienced as unreal, dreamlike, foggy, lifeless, or visually distorted: during the depersonalization or derealisation experiences, reality testing remains intact, exclusion criteria: Not due to substance abuse (alcohol or drugs) Not linked to any other disorder: must cause significant distress or functional impairment, people with this disorder tend to have experienced a lot of trauma in their lives. It is thought to be caused by the way in which they deal with the trauma. In child abuse for example, one way to protect yourself is to pretend that it"s a dream.