PSY240H5 Chapter Notes - Chapter 11: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia, Depersonalization Disorder
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Dissociative amnesia: the main diagnostic element is an inability to recall important autobiographical information. Personalities at different times; previously referred to as multiple personality disorder. Depersonalization: the experience of not experiencing the reality of one"s self; this experience can include feeling detached or observing one"s self as if you were an outside observer. Derealization: the experience that the external world is not solid; one"s world is experienced with a sense of detachment or as if in a fog or a dream, in other ways distorted or unreal. Amnesia, dissociative identity disorder, dissociative disorder not elsewhere classified. Dissociative experiences can last for a few minutes or hours but reoccur, and last for a longer period of time. Depersonalization is the experience of not experiencing the reality of one"s self. Can include feeling detached or observing one"s self as if you were an outside observer. Derealization is the experience that the external world is not solid.
