Psychology 2030A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Fugue State
15 May 2016
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Chapter 6 somatic symptom and dissociative disorders. Derealization sense of reality of external world is lost, things may change size/shape, people seem dead/mechanical. Feel like in a state of dreaming, an outside observer of own body or mind (however, they know they are not actually outside of their body, still in contact with reality) These feelings are part of several disorders ie. panic disorder, acute stress disorder. Rare, onset usually in adolescence after traumatic experience. Show deficits in attention, short-term memory, spatial reasoning, difficulty perceiving 3d images. Tunnel vision (perceptual distortion) and mind emptiness (difficulty absorbing new info) Reduced emotionality responding, dysregulation in hpa axis. Psychological treatments similar to panic disorder: address stresses associated with onset of disorder. Generalized amnesia inability to remember anything, including identity. Localized/selective amnesia failure to recall specific events (usually traumatic, common with war), adult onset.
