PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Psy, Psych, Somatization Disorder

• School: College of The Sequoias
• Department: Psychology (PSY)
• Course: PSY 034
• Professor: Del Rio

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General assumption: dissociation is a way to escape beyond a certain situation as. Psychodynamic approach is usually used a way to cope. (dissociation = defense mechanism) Retrieval: bringing out different alters and having them share they"re traumatic memories. People are rewarded for having multiple personalities, because it decreases anxiety. So the treatment is to ignore the other alters as a way of not reinforcing the alters. Says people develop alters as a way to avoid responsibilities. (can do whatever they want because they don"t remember it so it"s not their fault) Hypnotized undergraduate students after making them play out a murder scene in which they were the murderers. He then asked them if there was another part of them, and 80% said yes, and the other part confessed to the murder out. (extreme repression = amnesia) Fugue and did create ways for horrible memories or forbidden urges to come.