Psychology 1000 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Monoamine Oxidase Inhibitor, Evoked Potential
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Dissociative disorders: trying to avoid troubling thought, feelings and memories. They remove them from their conscious awareness freudian techniques. Psychogenic amnesia: patient unable to remember specific events, time in life or identity. Psychogenic fugue: patient wanders away from home, develops new identity (the way chuck bass does in gossip girl, doesn"t have multiple personality, but swaps out an old one for a new one. Dissociative identity disorder: patient develops 2 or more separate identities that co-exist, under stress patient switches from one identity to another. At least 2 of these identity take complete control over behavior. 49% are married and living with their spouse. Normal educational background; 37% college, 88% high school. They may not be aware that other personalities exist (usually they don"t), some personalities know about the others, and then other ones don"t. Very rare to know about their other personalities. Patient becomes curious about blackouts and memory lapses. Current: about 7000 diagnosed in north america.