PSY340H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Psychoanalytic Theory, Insanity Defense, Psychogenic Amnesia
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People don"t understand what"s going on with them. This is not a loss of touch with reality but rather a misinterpretation of reality. The most common would be multiple personality disorder. Dissociative disorders are a group of disorders where you believe that you are somebody else. These disorders have been reorganized on dsm-5 but are still there. We used to think these types of disabilities were rare but we now know that they are much more common than we initially thought. Somatoform disorders are physical ailments that cannot be explained by organic conditions. They seem to be largely due to psychological factors. Somatization disorder is marked by a history of diverse physical complaints that appear to have no biological cause and are psychological in origin. It used to be called hysteria because it was thought to only occur in women o. A significant loss of physical function with no apparent organic cause usually in a single organic system.
