PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 23: Handedness, Headache, Dissociative Identity Disorder
19 Mar 2017
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Two or more distinct personality states; marked discontinuity in sense of self; alterations in affect, behaviours, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory motor functioning; as reported by the individual or others. Recurring gaps in the recall of events, personal information, and/or traumatic events, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting. Symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning. Disturbance not part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice, and in children not due to imaginative play. Disturbance not due to effects of a substance (ex: alcohol), or due to another medical condition. Only 77 cases between 1791 and 1962 (cid:862)three fa(cid:272)es of e(cid:448)e(cid:863) (cid:894)(cid:1005)(cid:1013)5(cid:1011)(cid:895) (cid:894)thigpe(cid:374) & clerkly(cid:895: 25 years later, no additional cases seen. 8 did case in 1944-1970; 36 from 1970-1979. (cid:1005)(cid:1004)(cid:1004) did (cid:272)ases (cid:858)i(cid:374) treat(cid:373)e(cid:374)t(cid:859) i(cid:374) (cid:1005)(cid:1013)(cid:1012)(cid:1006) 171 outcome analyses in 1984 (kluft 1984) Alters may have specific roles, situations in which they appear: prosecutor alter (adolescent or child)
