PSYC 202 Lecture Notes - Intermittent Explosive Disorder, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Amnesia
15 Jan 2013
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People with this have a long history of multiple physical complainants for which they have taken medicine or consulted doctors. Ppl with conversion disorder report the loss of moor or sensory function such as paralysis, an anaesthesia (loss of sensation) or blindness. Indiv with pain disorder suffer from severe and prolonged pain. Hypochondriacs is the misinterpretation of minor physical sensations as serious illness. Ppl with body dysmorphic are preoccupied with an imagined defect in their appearance. Sudden alteration in consciousness that affects memory and identity. Ppl with dissociative amnesia may forget their entire past or lose their memory for a patriclaulr time period. With dissociative fugue the indiv suddenly and unexpectedly travels to a new locale, starts a new life and cannot remember his or her previous identity; The person with dissociative identity disorder (formerly called multiple personally) possesses two or more distinct personalities each complex and dominate one at a time.
