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Dissociative Disorders “fragmentation of the personality ”. Minhtri Tran ……… Period: 05 Seat# 10 and 14. History of the disorders. Definition: conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception . - PowerPoint PPT Presentation
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Dissociative Disorders“fragmentation of the personality”
Minhtri Tran………
Period: 05Seat# 10 and 14
History of the disorders• Definition: conditions that
involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception.
• Involving “fragmentation” of the personality, in which some parts of the personality have become detached, or dissociated, from other parts.
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• Dissociative disorders include:– Dissociative amnesia– Dissociative fugue– Depersonalization disorder– Dissociative identity disorder
Dissociative amnesia• Definition: A psychologically
induced loss of memory for personal information, such as one’s identity or residence.
• Symptoms: sign of retrograde amnesia, confusion, suffer from depression.
• Treatment: unavailable medical treatment but therapies such as Clinical hypnosis, Psychotherapy, Creative Therapies could work
• Facts: – alternative name: Psychogenic
amnesia– loss of the ability to retrieve
stored memory without any apparent neurological damage (more like natural cause than incident)
– patients are unable to retrieve emotional memories normally
• Case study:– Edward Lighthard: woke up in
Seattle’s Discovery park, with supposed dissociative amnesia
Sources:-http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/dissociative_disorders/hic_dissociative_amnesia.aspx-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_amnesia-Psychology AP* Edition
Dissociative fugue• Definition: same as
dissociative amnesia, but with the addition of “flight” from one’s home, family, and job.
• Symptoms: creating physical distance from your real identity, to runaway, extreme amnesia.
• Treatments: same methods, focus mostly on treating the client to overcome the stress or trauma that triggered the fugue
• Facts:– Fugue: (FEWG) means “flight”– Alcohol usage can be one of
the causes– Domestic violence
• Case study: “Jane Doe,” a woman with dissociative fugue who was found near death in a Florida park, where she was incoherent and suffering the effects of exposure.
Sources:-http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/dissociative_disorders/hic_dissociative_amnesia.aspx-http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/Dissociative_Disorders/hic_Dissociative_Fugue.aspx-Psychology AP* Edition
Depersonalization disorder• Definition: an abnormality
involving the sensation that mind and body have separated, as in an “out-of-body” experience.
• Symptoms: characterized by "switching" to alternate identities (during stress), change in voice, look, sound, mood, etc.
• Treatments: same methods, focus on treating anxiety and depression rather than the disorder itself, eliminate stressful activities and works.
• Facts:– Usually, there is no cause for
alarm.– A study of 30 such cases found that
obsessive-compulsive disorder and certain personality disorders often accompany this condition
– The causes are unknown.• Case study:
– Maurice Krishaber: experiences of "self-strangeness“
– Pierre Janet: pointing out that clients who suffered from depersonalization were normal from a sensory viewpoint.
Sources:- http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/dissociative_disorders/hic_dissociative_amnesia.aspx-http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/Dissociative_Disorders/hic_Depersonalization_Disorder.aspx- Psychology AP* Edition
Dissociative identity disorder• Definition: a condition in
which an individual displays multiple identities, or personalities
• Symptoms: trauma caused by the unconscious (psychoanalysis), mood swing, anxiety or panic attacks,
• Facts:– Most such cases occur in women– A.K.A. “multiple personality
disorder– Result of ego defense mechanisms
that do not allow energy from conflicts and traumas to escape from the unconscious mind
• Case study: – Mary Kendall, devoted herself to
helping others, yet contained frequent gaps in memory, developed DID to cope with her problems.
Sources:-http://www.fortea.us/english/psiquiatria/dissociative.htmhttp://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/Dissociative_Disorders/hic_Dissociative_Identity_Disorder_Multiple_Personality_Disorder.aspx-Psychology AP* Edition
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