Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Tardive Dyskinesia, Dream Interpretation, Reuptake

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

Document Summary

Psych lecture notes 10 psychosurgery electroconvulsive therapy drug therapy. Dissociaive disorders to avoid troubling thoughts, feelings, or memories remove from conscious awareness. Dissociaive amnesia paient unable to remember speciic events, ime in life, or idenity. Dissociaive fugue paient wanders from home develops new idenity. Dissociaive idenity disorder paient develops 2 or more separate ideniies that co-exist under stress paient switches from one idenity to another. At least 2 of these ideniies recurrently take control of behaviour. Normal educaional background 37% college, 88% high school. 60% conversion disorder (don"t feel part of their body) May be aware that others exist (usually not) Alters can be diferent ages, genders, races, species. Extreme physical or sexual abuse retreat and create an alternate. Paient becomes curious about blackouts and memory lapses. Current: about 7000 diagnosed cases in north america. Mean number of personaliies up from 3 to 16. Very rare to nonexistent outside of north america.