PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Etiology, Psych, Iatrogenesis
15 Jun 2013
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Etiology: trauma-memory debate typically appears in life before the age of 8 but not diagnosed until 20-30s. Young child deals with overwhelming emotional trauma. Psychodynamic doesn"t except this view as anxiety is not blocked from consciousness. Memory enhanced for terror" trauma: not expected to lead to forgetting. Memory impaired for betrayal" traumas: whether it"s a single episode or multiple it is where we observe amnesia. Continuum or taxon continuum: from daydreaming to hypnosis, to oob, to did taxon: includes, amnesia, depersonalization, did, 3% of population in pathological taxon. Get in touch with all of the alters. Share diagnosis with patients: critics believe that this is the first problem. Make contact with alters via hypnosis: therapist trying to call up alters is a very suggestive process which may lead to a self-fulfilling prophecy. Alters receive treatment for concerns: a lot of the alters have psychological problems of their own, long and expensive, good for therapists.
