Psychology 2310A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Attention Seeking, Pseudoscience, Borderline Personality Disorder

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Rod Martin

Document Summary

Dsm-iv-tr diagnostic criteria-used to be multiple personality disorder. Think schizophrenia is split personality schizophrenia is psychotic disorder, did is dissociative: two or more distinct identities or personality states. Each has its own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to environment, self. Alters very different from host, host is very passive, alters can be aggressive and destructive, average number of alters is 10, range from 2-100"s: recurrently take control of person"s behavior. Some identities aren"t aware of other, some know others exist, critical with one another, can be in open conflict with one another. Transition often caused by stress: loss of memory for personal information. Frequent gaps in memory of history, more passive identities have fewer memories, aggressive ids have more control, more memories: not due to physiological effect of a substance or general medical condition. Complex partial seizures can look like this, children with imaginary friends not considered did.