PS 242 Lecture Notes - Lecture 13: Alprazolam, Defence Mechanisms, Psychogenic Amnesia
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Dissociative disorders: normal: identity: personal (name, history, info, etc. ) Conscious: knowledge non-personal info (what year it is, who the president is, etc. ) Split part beaks away and is repressed. The disorders: psychogenic amnesia: amnesia caused by something psychological. Sudden inability to recall personal identity and important personal information. Not due to drug or alcohol use/any organic cause. 1-2% of the population: fugue state: means to travel . Travel: don"t know where they"re going and why. Doesn"t last forever weeks to months: dissociative identity disorders: multiple personality disorder. Existence of two or more distinct personalities in the same individual/person. Dominant personality at the given time determines behavior. Example: different ages, genders, sexual orientations, biology"s. Different personalities may know of each other. Don"t know what happens with different personalities. All have to do with a severe emotional trauma: psychogenic amnesia: could be from a one time severe trauma (rape) Defense mechanism: blocking/repression you don"t want to remember it.
