PSYC 1160 Study Guide - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Mood Disorder, Sympathetic Nervous System
16 Apr 2014
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Criteria for psychopathology: abnormality, deviates from the typical person, quantitative and qualitative deviations, maladaptiveness, disruption in social, academic, vocational life, personal distress, subjective feelings of anxiety, depression, etc. * eight sane people were admitted to a mental hospital; each reportedly heard voices. Feelings of apprehension accompanied by enhanced sympathetic nervous system (heart beat, sweating, breathing) Conscious awareness becomes separated from thoughts, feelings, and memories (psycho, best picture, 1960) * person has 2 or more distinct personalities which alternate among each other. * personalities have their own speech, walk, script, health conditions (diabetes, high blood pressure) * 95% of cases stem from childhood trauma. * chris sizemore (3); sybil dorsett (16); mulligan. * ross (1991) estimates at 1. 3% of ppln has mpd. * rash business deals; quit job to train in olympics. * severe psychological disorder typified by impairments to social, emotional, cognitive, and perceptual functioning. * bleuler (1911) coined the term: split mind .
