PSYCH 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 74: Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing, Dsm-5, Implicit Memory
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Clients engage with traumatic memories and stimuli, reliving the trauma until they habituate. Most efficacious treatment (for all types of traumas) Relive nightmares while awake, but rewrite the narrative as desired. Rapid back-and-forth eye movement while reliving images of trauma. Works only bc of exposure -- no special effect of eye movement. Ssris are helpful to treat the emotional and depressive symptoms of ptsd. Anti-anxiety medications are not effective for ptsd. Persistent, maladaptive disruptions in the integration of memory, consciousness, and/or identity. Losing memory, losing awareness of self or world, losing or changing identity. Psychologists range from believing all dissociative disorders are completely false. To believing dissociation is a routine event or common symptom. The concept of dissociation originates from psychoanalytic theory. The existence of the unconscious mind is now highly supported. Ex: implicit memory -- using learned associations we aren"t even aware we ever learned -- is studied widely and regularly now.
