PSYCH 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 76: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Eye Movement Desensitization And Reprocessing, Dsm-5
Document Summary
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. Ex: in lab studies, during unconscious thought people form new associations and re-organize info in better ways. Ex: recent model w/ 2 proposed unconscious mental processes: Uses logical knowledge to solve complex problems over time.
