Psychology 2310A/B Chapter Notes - Chapter 6: Dsm-5, Panic Disorder, Sick Role

• School: Western University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: Psychology 2310A/B
• Professor: Katerina Rnic

Document Summary

Dissociative disorders are characterized by severe maladaptive disruptions or alterations of identity, memory, and consciousness that are experienced as being beyond one"s control. Dissociation is the lack of normal integration of thoughts, feelings, and experiences and consciousness and memory. Localized amnesia-- the person fails to recall information for very speci c time. Selective amnesia in which the person has forgotten only parts of the trauma. Generalized amnesia were the person forgets all personal information from past. Continuous amnesia where the individual forgets information from a speci c date until the present. Systemic amnesia were the person only forget certain categories of information, such as certain people or places. A new alter can lead to a change in tone of voice, demeanour, or posture: age of diagnosis between 29 and 35 on average. 3 to 9 times more likely in women than men.