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experience “dissociations”
severe alterations or detachments
significant impairments in identity, memory, and consciousness
depersonalization and derealization |
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Definition
| lose your sense of your own reality |
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Term
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Definition
| reality of external world |
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Term
| types of dissociative disorders |
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Definition
depersonalization disorder
dissociative amnesia
dissociative fugue
dissociative trance disorder
dissociative identity disorder |
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Term
| depersonalization disorder |
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Definition
feelings of unreality and detachment
like being outside oneself, or being in a dream
severe/frightening
depersonalization
derealization
significant impairment |
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| depersonalization disorder causes |
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Definition
neuropsychology tests show cognitive deficits
attention
short-term memory
spatial resoning
easily distracted
decreased emotional response |
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Term
| depersonalization disorder treatment |
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Definition
psychological treatments are unstudied
prozac appears ineffective |
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Term
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Definition
episodes of psychogenic memory loss
generalized type: people who can't remember anything
localized/selective type: failure to recall specific events
memory loss: retrograde vs. anterograde |
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Term
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Definition
"flight" or travel
inability to remember how/why they arrive somewhere
assumption and disintegration of new identity
running "amok" |
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Term
| dissociative amnesia and fugue |
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Definition
causes and treatments: trauma and life stress
treatment: resolution without treatment - memory returns |
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Term
| dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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Definition
old name: "multiple personalities"
amnesia
dissociation of personality
adopt several new identities or "alters"
average personalities: 15 with unique characteristics |
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Definition
| the personality that seeks treatment |
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Term
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Definition
| transition from one personality to the next |
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Term
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Definition
real vs. false memories
suggestibility
simulated amnesia
demand characteristics
psysiological measures such as eye movement and EEG brain wave differences |
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Term
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Definition
1.5% year are diagnosed
female to male 9:1
onset in childhood
high comorbidity rates in axis I and II
lifelong chronic course |
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Definition
difficult to isolate because little is known
biological vulnerability
severe abuse/trauma history
highly suggestible - auto hypnotic model |
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Term
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Definition
reintegration of identities - long term therapy
identify and neutralize cues/triggers that provoke dissociation
visualization and reliving aspects of trauma
coping |
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Term
| future directions for dissociative disorders |
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Definition
possible changes to the DSM-V in reorganization and physical/psychological origins
rename to "health anxiety disorder"
connected to BDD and OCD
axis I or II classification |
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