PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 28: Derealization, Panic Disorder, Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
21 Jun 2020
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Involve severe alterations or detachments from reality. Depersonalization- distortion in perception of one"s own body or experience (e. g. , feeling like your own body isn"t real) Derealization- losing a sense of the external world (e. g. , sense of living in a dream) Recurrent episodes in which a person has sensations of unreality of one"s own body or surroundings. Feelings dominate and interfere with life functioning. Only diagnosed if primary problem involves depersonalization and derealization. Similar symptoms may occur in the context of other disorders, including panic disorder or ptsd. High comorbidity with anxiety and mood disorders. Few theories have been offered to explain the disorder and little research has been conducted on the problem; treatment= little is known due to limited research. Includes several forms of psychogenic memory loss. Adoption of several new identities (as many as 100; may be just a few; average is 15) At any given time, one of the subpersonalities dominates the person"s functioning.
