PSY-2212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Derealization, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Disease
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Disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior. Think that it is the mind"s psychodynamic way of dealing with a tragedy. Think that they are actors, or that this disorder is an iatrogenic therapy that is formed by psychologists telling them they have it. Dissociative amnesia: inability to recall important autobiographical information usually traumatic in nature that is not ordinary forgetting, not due to did, dissociative fugue, ptsd, acute stress disorder, somatization disorder, substance use, or an organic disorder. La belle indifferences (when individuals have this they are not stressed) Gets memory twenty years later of her father beating a boulder against a little girl. Tried to convict him but it did not hold up in court. Dissociative fugue: purposeful travel or bewildered wandering associated with identity amnesia, amnesia on the run , assumption of a new identity. Feel conflicted about testing out reality of this other and telling anyone.
