Chapter 6 part 3

Question 1

Define dissociative disorder

Answer 1

Conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity, or perception.

Question 2

When are dissociative disorders likely to happen

Answer 2

Right after an extremely stressful life event, like an accident

Question 3

What are the two types of experiences in disociative disorders

Answer 3

Depersonalization and derealization

Question 4

Define depersonalization

Answer 4

a. Perception alters so that you temporarily lose sense of your own reality

Question 5

Define derealization

Answer 5

a. Your sense of reality of the external world is lost

Question 6

Define Depersonalization – Derealization Disorder

Answer 6

1. Repeated experiences of feeling detached from one’s own thoughts or body
2. Severe and frightening, can dominate a persons life
3. However, they remain in contact with reality, where they realize they aren’t actually outside the body

Question 7

What is the connection between Depersonalization – Derealization Disorder and panic attacks?

Answer 7

1. 50% of panic attacks can have feelings of unreality

a. Therefore, unreality can be part of other disorders

Question 8

Since feelings of unreality are found in many other anxiety disorders, why was the category of Depersonalization – Derealization Disorder made?

Answer 8

when severe Depersonalization – Derealization is primary problem then a person gets classified as Depersonalization – Derealization Disorder

Question 9

What is the pathology of Depersonalization – Derealization Disorder

Answer 9

1. Cognitive deficits in attention, short-term memory, spatial reasoning
   a. Are easily distracted, see in 2D

Question 10

What are three areas of brain function that are impacted by Depersonalization – Derealization Disorder

Answer 10

a. Perception
b. Emotional responding and regulation
c. HPA axis regulation

Question 11

What are the three types of dissociative amnesia

Answer 11

1. Generalized amnesia
2. Localized amnesia
3. Dissociative fugue

Question 12

Define generalized amnesia

Answer 12

a. People who are unable to remember anything, even their own name

Question 13

Define localized amnesia

Answer 13

a. Failure to recall specific events (esp. traumatic ones) that occur during a specific period

Question 14

Define dissociative fugue

Answer 14

a. Memory loss revolves around a specific incident – an unexpected trip
b. During the trip the person may assume a new identity

Question 15

What time in life does dissociative amnesia usually occur?

Answer 15

Usually occurs during adulthood, and is rare to occur for the first time after the age of fifty

Question 16

What is the prevalence of dissociative amnesia?

Answer 16

a. 2-7%, mostly female

Question 17

What is the most prevalent of the dissociative disorders?

Answer 17

dissociative amnesia

Question 18

Define amok

Answer 18

a. Similar disorder not found in western cultures
b. In a trance like state, the person brutally assaults or kills animals or people
c. Mostly male

Question 19

Define dissociative trance disorder

Answer 19

a. Somewhat of a trance state (either group or individual) that is considered pathological by members of the culture