PSYCH 2AP3 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Spirit Possession, Trauma Model Of Mental Disorders, Implicit Memory
8 Apr 2016
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Involve temporary inability to gain conscious access to certain memory contents. Unable to access info about events of the past or some series of events. Dissociaive amnesia - individual loses memory for some period of ime (could be hours, days, etc. : usually it is relaively brief, usually it is triggered by traumaic event argument, loss of job, etc. Half of the psychiatrists don"t think this is a real disorder. Is it naturally occurring or is it brought on by social/clinical expectaions rather than real psychological events. Depersonalizaion disorder depersonalizaion is a symptom evident in # of disorders (including schizophrenia: characterized by feeling that one is not in ones body, you are observing yourself from outside. Dissociaive disorder not otherwise speciied (nos: indiv who show dissociaive symptoms but don"t meet the criteria for any other dissociaive disorder. Two or more personality states, each with its own patern of perceiving, relaing ro, and thinking about the environment and self.
