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 andor perception ID: 269243
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Dissociative Disorders“fragmentation of the personality”
Minhtri
Tran
………
Period: 05
Seat# 10 and 14Slide2
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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ContentDissociative disorders include:
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative fugue
Depersonalization disorder
Dissociative identity disorder Slide4
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 amnesiaSlide5
Sources:
-
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/dissociative_disorders/hic_dissociative_amnesia.aspx
-http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_amnesia
-Psychology AP* EditionSlide6
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.Slide7
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* EditionSlide8
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.Slide9
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* EditionSlide10
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.Slide11
Sources:
-http://www.fortea.us/english/psiquiatria/dissociative.htm
http://my.clevelandclinic.org/disorders/Dissociative_Disorders/hic_Dissociative_Identity_Disorder_Multiple_Personality_Disorder.aspx
-Psychology AP* EditionSlide12
Go figure!
Enjoy the disorders!Slide13