PSY 3171 Lecture Notes - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Somatic Symptom Disorder, Dissociative Disorder

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 3171
• Professor: Mary Theresa Howard

Document Summary

80% of doctors believe this disease is real: rare, three faces of eve: eve white, eve black, and jane, over a period of 44 years she had 22 personalities, attacks could be painful. Lucy is still dealing with personalities: some alters actually said good bye after this treatment, majority of people diagnosed with this disease are women. Losing time: psychiatrists say child alters represent separate painful memories, possible biological susceptibility. Dissociative and somatoform disorders: up to dsm iv: four disorders for dissociatice, the dsm v takes a few away or combines them. Diffential dissociative disorder, differential amnesia combined with fugue and depersonalization. History: characterized by severe disturbances or alterations of identity, memory and consciousness, dissociation is the defining symptom, believed to be quite rare but higher rates have been reported. Not all population is suggestible: many can hold jobs but also many aren"t capable, during treatment it can cause many more personalities to show.