PSYC 238 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Confirmation Bias, Complex Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder, Suggestibility
23 Feb 2017
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Not due to brain injury or substance use: depersonalization/derealization detached from one"s own body or surroundings. Depersonalization detached from one"s own thoughts, feelings, and/or behaviors; out of body experiences. Derealization detached from one"s surroundings; things are experienced. Dissociative identity disorder as unreal, dreamlike: personalities are merely fragments, attributed to interaction of several factors. Lack of sufficient nurturing/compassion: women diagnosed more than men, does not seem to have adult onset, develops in childhood, alters fragmented identities; average = 10, common alters. Opposite sex role: amnesia about some identities, associated with high incidence of suicide attempts. Prevalence: any dissociative disorder lifetime prevalence is 4-20, dissociative identity disorder. Large increase in number of cases in the 80s. Became an actual diagnosis in the dsm iii: issues in prevalence. Malingering faking symptoms for some sort of secondary gain. People may fake dissociative identity disorder to claim they aren"t. Etiology responsible for a crime: biological factors. No evidence for genetic component: social factors parenting.
