Dissociative disorders

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Dissociative disorders

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Three types :
Depersonalization/derealization disorder
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality)

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Depersonalization/derealization disorder

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Experience of detachment from the self and reality

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Dissociative amnesia

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Lack of conscious access to memory, typically of a stressful experience. The fugue subtype involves traveling or wandering coupled with loss of memory of one’s identity or past

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Dissociative identity disorder

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At least two distinct personalities that act independently of each other

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Amnesia

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May last from several hours to several days. Can cause disorientation. Severe stress can cause it. Memories don’t encode right way. Tend to focus on central features of threatening situation and not to peripheral features

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Epidemiology

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Not well researched. Two models of DID

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Posttraumatic model

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key element for developing DID is the use of dissociation to cope with trauma

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Sociocognitive model

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Alters appear in response to suggestions by clinicians (iatrogenic), media or cultural influences in people who have been abused and seek explanations for their symptoms.