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Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders. Dissociative Disorders. Disorders in which conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts and feelings. May have multiple personalities, amnesia, or become someone else Very popular subject for TV and movies - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Dissociative and Somatoform Disorders
Dissociative DisordersDissociative Disorders• Disorders in which
conscious awareness becomes separated (dissociated)(dissociated) from previous memories, thoughts and feelings.– May have multiple
personalities, amnesia, or become someone else
– Very popular subject for TV and movies
– But, very very rare and some argue their existence
Dissociative Identity Dissociative Identity DisorderDisorder
• a person exhibits two or more distinctdistinct and alternating personalities.– Women tend to average 15 pers. and men
about 8– Herschell Walker 1 2
•formally known as multiple personality multiple personality disorderdisorder.
Dissociative AmnesiaDissociative Amnesia
• characterized by a loss or blocking out of critical personal information
Dissociative Amnesia• Does NOT result from other medical
trauma (e.g. a blow to the head).
Dissociative Fugue• Characterized by reversible amnesia for personal
identity• Fugue comes from the word fugitivefugitive • An individual in a fugue state is unaware of or confused
about his identity, and in some cases will assume a new identity (although this is the exception).
• Can involve unplanned traveling or wandering
Depersonalization Disorder
• Marked by a feeling of detachment or distance from one's own experience, body, or self.
One can easily relate to feeling as they are in a dream, or being "spaced
out." A person's experience with
depersonalization can be so severe that he or she believes the external world is unreal
or distorted.
Somatoform DisordersSomatoform DisordersConfusion of Mind & BodyConfusion of Mind & Body
• Disorders involving physical symptoms or complaints with
nono real physical cause or explanation
• Two types– Conversion disorder
• May suffer from a loss of movement in a limb or feeling in a hand or arm or loss of vision
– Hypochondriasis • You believe something is very
wrong with your health
Dissociative Amnesia - Types• Localized amnesia
– an individual who has no memory of specific events that took place, usually traumatic.
• The loss of memory is localized with a specific window of time. • For example, a survivor of a car wreck who has no memory of
the experience until two days later is experiencing localized amnesia.
• Selective amnesia – when a person can recall only small parts of events that
took place in a defined period of time. – For example, an abuse victim may recall only some parts of the
series of events around the abuse.
• Generalized amnesia – when a person's amnesia encompasses an entire life.
• Systematized amnesia – characterized by a loss of memory for a specific
category of information. – A person with this disorder might, for example, be missing all
memories about one specific family member.
Causes of Dissociative Causes of Dissociative DisordersDisorders
• An attempt to escape a traumatic experience– Protecting the “self”– Traumatic event in childhood
• Highly imaginative children– Make-believe games become part of real life
• Could just be attention seeking personalities