Dissociation Flashcards
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Severe dissociate disorder. Original personality unaware of other personalities
Depersonalization
Feeling of being a spectator outside of body
Derealization
Aspects of the world changing, colors going flat, sounds distant
Dissociative amnesia
Abrupt onset, abrupt termination
Dissociative fugue
Sudden unexpected travel away from home. Confusion of identity assumes new identity
Causes/treatment of dissociative disorders
Abreaction- release of a previously repressed emotion, relieving it.
Antianxiety, antidepressant, antipsychotic
Iatrogenesis
The manufacture of a disorder by its treatments “expectations”
Abreaction
release of a previously repressed emotion, relieving it.
Brain structures affected in dissociation
Amygdala, hypocampus
Dissociation metaphor in Fight Club
Wakes up in airplane jet-lag creates dissociation
Delusional Disorder
Non-bizarre delusions for at least a month, functioning is not markedl impaired
themes of grandiosty and persecution
Dream (latent, manifest content)
manifest0 consious dream content that is remember after
Latent- unconsious meaning of dream