Chapter 5 Flashcards
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder
- In which a person has two or more distinct personalities
- Also known as split personality
What is the Diagnostic Criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Disruption of Identity characterized by two or more distinct states
- Recurring gaps in the recall of everyday events, important personal information, and / or traumatic events that are inconsistent with oridinary forgetting.
- The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational or other important areas of functioning
Dissociative Disorder is not ________
Schizophrenia
What are all the Dissociative Disorders
- Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Dissociative Amnesia (Dissociative Fugue)
- Depersonalization / Derealization
- Unspecified Dissociative Disorder
Broad definition of Dissociative Dsiorders
- Dissociative Disorders represent a disruption of normal integration of memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control and behaviour
What is DID associated with
- Pervasive and traumatic experiences as a child and young adult
- Disorder may manifest itself at any age
Dissociative Amnesia
- Person experiences memory loss in the absence of any identifiable organic cause
- General knowledge and skills are usually retained
- People forget events or periods of life that were traumatic that generated strong negative emotions such as horror or guilt
- Not atributed to age / cultural or medical expectations
Is memory loss Dissociative Amnesia reversible
Yes
Malingering
- Dissociative Amnesia
- Faking illness to avoid or escape work or other duties or to obtain benefits
Depersonalization
- Feelings of unreality or detachment from ones self
Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Referred to as split personality
- When two or more personalities occupy one person
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Two or more personalities occupy one person
What themes are common in Dissosiative Identity Disorder
Sexual Ambivalence
Shifting Sexual Orientation
What traits can influence altering personalities
- Cultural Background
- non epileptic seizures
- Culture
- Religion
Dissociation is influenced by ________
Unconscious Beliefs
Dissociative Disorder should not be confused with
Schizophrenia
Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative disorder in which a person experiences memory losses in the absence of any identifiable organic cause. General knowledge and skills are usually retained
Malingering
Faking illness to avoid or escape work or other duties, or to obtain benefits
Deperonalization
Feelings of unreality or detachment from ones self or ones body, as if one were a robot or functioning on automatic pilot or observing oneself from outside
