Chapter 8 - Dissociative Disorders and Somatic Symptom Disorders Flashcards
3 Major Dissociative Disorders
Dissociative Amnesia
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Inability to recall personal information, usually information about some traumatic experience, wherein the holes in memory are too extensive to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness
Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative amnesia that incluedes the inablity to recall one’s past, confusion about identity or assumption of a new identity and sudden, unexpected travel away from home or work.
Fugue (Latin Fugere to Flee)
Dissociative disorders deficits in _____ memory but not _____ memory
Explicit, Implicit
Memory involving the conscious recall of experiences
Explicit Memory
Learning based on experiences that are not consciously recalled
Implicit memory
Memory fails slowly over time, not linked to stress, and is accompanied by other cognitive deficits
Dementia
When a person suddenly loses his or her sense of self and sensory experiences, usually triggered by stress. They may have the impression that they are out of their bodies, viewing themselves from a distance
Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder
The sensation that the world has become unreal
Derealization
Persistent or recurrent experiences of detachment from one’s mental processes or body despite intact reality testing
Depersonalization
Disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states (alters) or an experience of possession as evidence by discontinuities in sense of self, cognition, behavior, affect, perceptions, and/pr memories
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Model that proposes that some people are likely to use dissociation to cope with trauma
Posttraumatic Model
Model that suggests that DID is the result of learning to enact social roles
Sociocognitive Model
Evidence raised for Posttraumatic Model and Sociocognitive Model debate
DID symptoms can be role-played (Bianchi)
Alters share memories, even when they report amnesia
Detection of DID differs by clinician
Many DID symptoms emerge after treatment starts
Goal of treatment of DID
convince the person that splitting into different personalities is no longer necessary to deal with traumas
Hypnosis that encourated the patient to go back in his or her mind to traumatic events in childhood
Age regression
Excessive concerns about physical symptoms or health
Somatic symptom disorder
3 Major Somatic Symptom Disorders
Complex Somatic Symptom Disorder
Illness anxiety disorder
Functional neurological syndrome
Disorder involving major distress or energy expenditure regarding a somatic symptom
Complex somatic symptom disorder