PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Dissociative Disorder
1 Dec 2017
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Half of psychiatrists don"t think this is real. Dissociative identity disorder - multiple personality disorder (up to dsm-3) Big on its impact on our thinking of psychological functions, clinical practice, disorders that are created by social/psychiatric pressure. Suggests total separate personalities, but we don"t have enough brain power for that. A part of your identity that is different from one to the next. Depersonalization: living in a movie; things around them aren"t real; distancing from outside world. Derealization: distancing from the self; sense of individual"s disrupted identity; lost sense of cohesive identity. Two or more distinct personality states; marked discontinuity in sense of self, alternations in affect, behaviour, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning. Recurring gaps in the recall of events, personal info, and/or traumatic events, that is inconsistent w/ ordinary forgetting inconsistent w/ ordinary forgetting. Symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in important areas of functioning.
