PSY 247 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Suggestibility, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Fugue State
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Dissociation- mental processes that produce a lack of connection in a person"s thoughts, memories, actions, or sense of identity: when you separate yourself from things. Everyday example of dissociation: daydreaming: certain information is not assimilated into consciousness, memory loss, psychological need to escape, a way of escaping severe stress or trauma that is ongoing. Ex: if you have been through a traumatic experience your brain pulls you away so you don"t have to experience it. It is continuing: an unintentional coping method, you don"t realize you do it because you body automatically does it (like flight or fight) Depersonalization-derealization disorder- feelings of unreality and detachment from self (depersonalization) or surrounding (derealization: out of body experience, nothing for others to pick up on this only the person it is happening to feels it. Must be severe and frightening to the person. Significant impairment: both must be there for it to be classified as disorder. Panic attacks also have depersonalization and derealization.
