PSY 100 Chapter Notes - Chapter 16: Fugue State, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychogenic Amnesia
27 Apr 2019
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In psychopathology, dissociation happens when thoughts, feelings, and experiences of our consciousness and memory do not collaborate well with each other. Introduction: consciousness: the quality or state of being aware of an external object or something within oneself. Defining dissociation: dissociation, a distinction is often made between dissociative states and dissociative traits. Short-lived reversible amnesia for personal identity, involving unplanned travel or: dissociative fugue is not viewed as a separate disorder but is a feature of some, but. Bewildered wandering. : feeling as though one is an outside observer of one"s body, experiencing two or more distinct identities that recurrently take control over one"s. These personality states- or alters"- alternately control a person"s behavior: a feeling of detachment or estrangement from one"s self. The sufferer therefore experiences significant memory impairments for important information not explained by ordinary forgetfullness. Scic-d: structural clinical interview for dsm-iv dissociative disorders disorder, is at the far end of the dissociative disorder spectrum.
