PSY 034 Lecture Notes - Lecture 26: Psych, Anxiety Disorder, Conversion Disorder
6 Aug 2020
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*disintegrated experience is more than memory loss, involves at least some disintegration of identity, if not complete adoption of new one. People unable to remember anything, i. e. who they are; complete loss of life history. Cannot remember a specific event but can recall other events for a specific period of time usually traumatic. Occurs for a specific period of time. Memory loss around a specific incident, i. e. specific incident; an unexpected trip. Associated with travel (deliberate or not) in which you take off and later find yourself in a new place; you don"t remember why or how you got there. Usually they left to leave behind an intolerable situation. During these trips a person assumes new identity or becomes confused about old. Fugue state ends abruptly and the individual returns home. Certain aspects of the persons identity are dissociated. May adopt as many as 100 new identities(all simultaneously coexisting), avg. is 15.
