PSYCH 212 Lecture Notes - Lecture 85: Posttraumatic Stress Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Derealization
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All involve mental processing outside of conscious awareness. Losing awareness (shutting off experience) or losing time. Being detached from self (out of body) Sense of self splits into multiple identities or selves. Multiple persons appear to coexist in one individual. Primary symptom of dissociative identity disorder (did) The different personalities within someone w/ did. People may claim a memory returned after it was kept out of awareness due to trauma. Dissociation is blamed as the culprit for blocking the memory. Yet these memories can be false and may arise from a therapist"s suggestion that they exist (when they don"t) Unfortunately, memory is very inaccurate and re- writable. Each time you recall a memory, it can be changed and stored again. Thus, one must be very careful w/ recovering blocked memories . Characterized by an inability to recall autobiographical info. Often lose time or have gaps in their memory.
