Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Mania, Explanatory Style

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Terry Biggs

Document Summary

Dissociaive idenity disorder (used to be called muliple personality disorder) o o. Paient appears uterly dejected, hopeless, worthless (more than 6months) May be hallucinaions or delusions in severe cases. Loss of appeite, sleep disturbance, faigue, suicide, litle interest in sex. Paient swing from one extreme to the other. 10 episodes of each state during life (long-term in one state) Some people are rapid cyclers (4 or more swings per year) Characterized by disturbance in mood (afect) rather than thought. Acute form: endless talk, no inhibiion, insomnia, huge plans, need to be sedated. Lost touch with reality (thought, feeling and thinking mix together) Spliing mental processes (e. g. atenion, percepion, emoion, moivaion, etc. ) Feelings of anger towards a parent who abandoned you or any signiicant loss. Ander directed inward resuling in guilt and self-loathing. Seligman: learned helplessness (whatever you do doesn"t make a diference, nothing maters) o. Is it the cause or result of depression.