PSY 103 Lecture Notes - Lecture 12: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Disorder, Spontaneous Remission

• School: Stony Brook University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 103
• Professor: Richard Gerrig

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~ not schizophrenia: dissociative disorders: disturbances in the integration of identity, memory, or consciousness. Researchers who support the diagnosis believe that people protect themselves from various types of trauma and abuse by creating alternate personalities: mart nez-taboas et al. , 2006: victimization and dissociation. The children completed questionnaires that assessed the presence of victimization experiences and dissociative symptoms. Greater victimization was associated with higher levels of dissociative symptoms: schizophrenic disorders: disorders characterized by hallucinations, delusions, and disordered thought and behavior. * positive symptoms (associated with acute/active phases): hallucinations, delusions, incoherent behavior. * negative symptoms: social withdrawal, flattened emotions: diathesis-stress hypothesis: genetic factors put individuals at risk, but environmental stressors cause the disorders to emerge. Thompson et al. (2001): accelerated gray matter loss in early-onset schizophrenia. 12 adolescents with schizophrenia (onset of symptoms by age 12) and 12 matched controls underwent mri scans over the course of 5 years. than one domain.