PSY 101 Lecture Notes - Lecture 20: Major Trauma, Psy, Catatonia

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 101
• Professor: Christopher Niemic

Document Summary

Little research into the ideology of the disorder and the treatment. Although disorder is rare, dissociation is quite common. Everyone forgets to do something, feels separation from body, viewing ourselves as if we"re watching a movie. As a class of disorders, dissociative disorders are marked by serious, long term gaps in memory. People who suffer from disorder, the dissociation is response to some serious traumatic psychological abuse. We must divorce ourselves from that memory. People either have sudden change in identity or sudden loss in memory. Memory loss may last varying periods of time and its either result of physical trauma or intoxication. Only self-relevant memories are lost who they are, where they live. Difference between fugue states and amnesia is extent to which the lapses in memory occur. In extreme cases, people in fugue states people may forget who they are, wander from home, and take on a new identity.