PSYC 300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 21: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fugue State, Psychogenic Amnesia

• School: UBC
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 300
• Professor: J O E L L E L E M O U L T

Document Summary

Inability to recall important personal info, usually about traumatic event. Info is not lost and can be retrieved. Can last brief such as one hour to long like months to years. Presentation where people travel away from home. Assume new identity or loss of memory of old identity. Can"t recall what happened during the episodes. Come forward at different time depending on the needs. At least two altars take primary that take control of behaviours. Additional altres will emerge in the context of treatment. Treatment goal is to blend personality together. Results of severe sexual and physical abuse. Tends to use dissociation as a coping mechanism. Alters developed in response to suggestion by other people. Take someone back to the age when the disorder occurs during hypnosis. Report at least one that is distressing to their daily life. Can be diagnosed regardless whether the symptoms can be diagnosed medically. In the absence of any somatic symptoms.