Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Lecture 36: Psychoanalysis, Amygdala, Narcissistic Personality Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 1000
• Professor: Mark Holden

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Traumatic experience: more common in wartime, also, higher proportion of cambodian refugees developed psychogenic. Culture that discourages speaking about emotions, or stigmatizes psychological disorders: e. g. army physical symptoms becomes only acceptable outlet for emotional distress, e. g. victorian era glove paralysis common. Dissociative disorders breakdown of the normal unity/coherence of personality, or sense of self: dissociative amnesia extensive, but selective memory loss in some cases, cannot remember specific events, people, places, etc in extreme cases, can"t remember one"s past: Dissociative fugue loss of all sense of personal identity, give up customary way of life, wander far away, start a new life; usually triggered by stress can last years before person wakes up . Differences in physiological characteristics: different voice prints for each personality, different eyeglasses prescriptions. Could d. i. d just be acting: not all symptoms previously stated can be acted , reinders et al. (2012) looked at eeg recording in response to visual stimuli. Actual multiple personalities showed different neural response patterns!