PSC 168 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Functional Neurological Symptom Disorder, Iatrogenesis, Threshold Of Pain
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Memory, identity or consciousness dissociative identity disorders = did dissociative fugue- amnesia plus travel" usually incomplete change of identity, recovery usually abrupt and complete distortion of self or environment. Things feel strange or surreal: depersonalization/derealization disorder: feelings of unreality and perceptual, dissociative identity disorder (formerly multiple personality disorder) most common form precipitated by physical or psychological stress. 2 or more independent personalities existing in one person" symptoms. Gleaves 1996 amnesia, lack of personal memory of childhood or daily events alteration of identity experience of possession with a new identity may be observable by others or self- reported. Did overdiagnose great increases in diagnosis rare outside u. s. and canada: diagnostic controversy, base rate for dissociation experiences may be high which clinicians misinterpret as, hard to separate faking from real behavior. Iatrogenic: created by therapeutic situation (hypnotic suggestibility: behavioral perspective: indirect avoidance of stress.
