16: Psychological Disorders - Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

Dissociative disorders

Answer 1

disorders which involve a major dissociation of personal identity or memory

Question 2

Dissociative disorders

Take three different forms:

1. Psychogenic Annesia

Answer 2

a person responds to a stressful event with extensive but selective memory loss

Question 3

Dissociative Disorders

Take Three Different Forms:

2. Psychogenic Fugue

Answer 3

a person loses all sense of personal identity, gives up their customary life, wanders to a new faraway location, and establishes a new identity

• Triggered by a highly stressful event or trauma
• May last from several hours to several years

Question 4

Dissociative Disorders

Take Three Different Forms:

3. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)

Answer 4

two or more separate personalities coexist in the same person

• A primary/host personality appears more often than others
• Personalities may or may not know of existence of others
• Can differ in gender, age
• Trauma-dissociation theory – development of new personalities occurs in response to severe stress

Question 5

Causes of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Question 6

Frontiers

Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Clinical and Scientific Puzzle