PSYC 2300 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Subpersonality, Psychogenic Amnesia, Derealization
23 Sep 2018
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People with dissociative amnesia often recover on their own. )n contrast, people with d)d usually require treatment to regain their lost memories and. (ow do therapist help people with dissociative amnesia? develop an integrated personality. The leading treatments for these disorders are psychodynamic therapy and drug treatment. Sometimes intravenous injections of barbiturates are used to help patients regain lost memories. Often called (cid:498) truth serums, (cid:499) the key to the drugs" success is their ability to calm people and free their inhibitions. Once a diagnosis of d)d has been made, therapists try to bond with the primary personality and with each of the subpersonalities. To help patients recover missing memories, therapists use many of the approaches applied in other dissociative disorders, including psychodynamic therapy and drug treatment. The final goal of therapy is to merge the different subpersonalities into a single, integrated identity.
