PSYC 3140 Chapter 8: Chapter 8 textbook

• School: York University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 3140
• Professor: Joel Goldberg

Document Summary

Somatoform disorder she experienced physiological symptoms that breuer argued were the result of painful memories or emotions she was not able to confront. Dissociative disorders, in which people develop multiple separate personalities or completely lose their memory for significant portions of their lives. Some theorists consider both of these sets of disorders to be the result of an extreme form of escape used by some people facing traumatic experiences or intolerable distress. This form of escape is known as dissociation, a process in which different parts of an individual"s identity, memories, or consciousness become split off from one another. The somatoform disorders are a group of disorders in which people experience significant physical symptoms for which there is no apparent organic cause. They truly experience the symptoms, and the symptoms pass only when the psychological factors that led to the symptoms are resolved.