Ab Psych - Dissociative Disorders

• Dissociative Amnesia
• Dissociative Identity Disorder
• Depersonalization-Derealization Disorder

• Third part reporting
• Extensive inability to recall important personal information
• May include fugue

• Generalized
• Localized

Severe psychological stress: Child abuse, violence

• Often no treatment required
• Hypnosis if no memory after a week

Existence of two distinct, independent and complex personalities which dominate at different times.

<0.02%

• 3-9 Times more female
• Males average 8 identities, females 15

Late adolescence and young adulthood

• More common in first degree relatives
• 98% Have childhood trauma/abuse
• Suggestibility -> Autohypnosis
• Neurological

• Integrative therapy (25% success)
• Treat trauma

• Presence and of persistent or recurring Depersonalizatoin and Derealization, or both
• Not better explained by other conditions

Detachment from one's mind, self or body

Experiences of unreality or detachment from one's surroundings

• Difficulty describing symptoms
• Time dilation
• Difficulty recalling memories in detail
• Under-reactive/muted responses
• Associated anxiety/depression

• Transient symptoms common
• 0.8% - 2.8% of people have the disorder
• Equal sex ratio

• Age range; 16-24
• Chronic

• Discrete recurring episodes
• Continuous
• Episodic, progressing to continuous