PSYC 3023 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia
15 Dec 2018
School
Department
Course
Professor
Document Summary
Localised: forgetting what happened during a certain period although remember previous and subsequent events (eg. victim of an assault may not remember anything that occurred some minutes before, during and after the attack) Generalised amnesia: amnesia for all or most personal information, including one"s name, personal history and identity of family. Continuous amnesia: inability to recall events subsequent to a specific time. Cicchetti, buchanan, rakfeldt, & rounsaville, 1994; waller, putnam & Carlson, 1996: dissociative identity disorder is considered by many to be a variant of ptsd because of the theorised role of trauma in its causation (gleaves et al. , 2001; waller et al. , 1996, most overlap with ptsd. Depersonalisation/ derealisation disorder: brief experience of depersonalisation have estimated lifetime prevalence of between 26-74 percent, prevalence of this disorder in the community appears to be somewhere between 0. 8 and 2. 4, appears at 16 yo.
