PSY-2212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Factitious Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, Mood Disorder
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What is dissociation: driving example: not remembering how you got from point a to point b. Dissociative disorders: disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior: this disruption must be severe and/or cause suffering/impairment. Not ordinary forgetfulness: not a normal part of broadly accepted cultural or religious practice, typical case of dissociative disorder: Common personality types: children, opposite sex, protector, persecutor. 67% have been hospitalized: real-life example: 3 faces of eve - chris sizemore, diagnostic controversy. Those who believe that its quite common, born out of trauma, and a psychodynamic coping mechanism of the mind. Those who don"t believe in it believe it doesn"t exist or that when it exists, it is an iatrogenic effect (side effect from therapy): symptoms for clinicians to look for: Localized: lost memory of specific event (most common) Selective: lost memory of disturbing part of an event.
