PSYCH 2AP3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Psychogenic Amnesia, Major Depressive Episode, Dissociative Disorder
30 Jul 2017
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In general, the experience of dissociation is most likely to occur after a stressful life event. Depersonalization: your perception alters so that you temporarily lose the sense of your. Derealization: your sense of the reality of the external world is lost own reality; reality, experience, and our own identity seems to disintegrate. In this disorder, the individual has repeated experiences of feeling detached from his/her. The person may feel a if her/she is an outside observer of his or her own body or thoughts. Feelings of depersonalization-derealization are part of several different disorders. Charbonneau and k. o"connor (1999) in the majority of cases, onset occurred following. Simeon et al. (1997) 30 cases 19 women & 11 men, mean age of onset 16. 1 years and they tended to be chronic, lasting an avg of 15. 7 years, more than 50% had additional mood & anxiety disorders.
