PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 30: Psychogenic Amnesia, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Cortical Blindness
21 Sep 2020
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Among the most controversial diagnostic category in the dsm. Approximately half of the psychiatrics in north america don"t believe this disorder is real dissociative disorders. Dissociative amnesia: dissociative feud, case always involved amnesia and leaving of one"s normal location for another place, you have dissociative amnesia with or without feud. Dissociative identity disorder: used to be called multiple personality disorder, this suggests total personalities per individual (which isn"t possible as we don"t have enough brain structure to construct more than one personality) changed in dsm-3 lomoar cpsd| 2151316. 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 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.
