PSYC 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Schizoid Personality Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Narcissistic Personality Disorder
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Psyc 101 lecture 20 psychological disorder 2. Factitious disorder, a person either fakes having physical symptoms or voluntarily inflicts some type of harm on themselves: attention seeking behavior. Factitious disorder, a person will inflict harm upon someone else, such as his or her child: formerly known as munchausen syndrome by proxy, again, the primary motivation is to gain attention and sympathy from others. Dissociative disorders involve a loss of connection with some part of our consciousness, identity, or memory: to dissociate means to break or pull apart, mild dissociative experiences are common. Driving a common road and not remembering it. Appearing like you are listening to this lecture. Depersonalization-derealization disorder involves frequent episodes in which the person feels detached from own mental state or body that causes significant distress or impairs functioning. In some instances, people feel as if they"re observing themselves from the outside.
