PSYC 3230 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Edial, Malingering, Hair Loss

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3230
• Professor: James E Alcock

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We normally have a continuous and integrated sense of self: we know that we are the same person that we were this morning, yesterday, last year, dissociative disorders involve a severe disruption in that sense of self. Three categories: dissociative amnesia, dissociative identity disorder, depersonalization/derealization disorder. Dissociative amnesia is diagnosed when an individual cannot recall significant personal information in the absence of brain injury/disease. An inability to recall important autobiographic information, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature, that is inconsistent with ordinary forgetting: 2. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress: 3. The disturbance is not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance, other medical condition, seizures, global amnesia, brain injury, etc: 4. The disturbance is not better explained by other dissociative or amnesiac disorders. Memory recovery techniques very risky: may contaminate memory or even create false memories. E. g. , (cid:862)re(cid:272)o(cid:448)ered (cid:373)e(cid:373)ories of (cid:272)hildhood se(cid:454)ual a(cid:271)use. (cid:863)