PSYCH 1XX3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Waxy Flexibility, Catatonia
25 Dec 2015
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Delusions loose association; ideas loosely related; speech is vague and abstract. Belief that is irrational and unsupported by external evidence; persecution and significant events/objects; about thoughts or thinking itself thought broadcast; thought withdrawal; thought insertion. Perceptions of things that aren"t there auditory more common than visual; voices speaking to ind: negative: beh that decrease. Decrease in engagement; less interested in ppl and events of world; fantasies; increasing neglect of appearance; emotional response changes affect flat = low emotional response; inappropriate affect laughing. Did multiple personality disorder: single ind manifests several diff personalities/alters and. Alters emerge in an instant of sexual abuse to begins before age of 9 and in females shield main by trauma by carrying away memories of abuse and main doesn"t remember them. Coping strategy dissociating traumatic memories into independent personalities. Some cases may be by suggestion of therapist implantation by suggestion.
