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Disruption/dissociation
“splitting off”
Amnesia
Memory loss
Derealization
Distorted or unreal preception of the people
Depersonalization
Sense of detachment from oneself and one's emotion
Identity Confusion
Blurred sense of identity
Identity Alteration
Having more than one distinct personality
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Two or more personalities occupy the person; was known as multiple personality disorder or split personality
Common alter personalities
Children of various ages
Prostitutes
Gay Males
Lesbians
Adolescents of the opposite gender
Alters
Microcosm of conflicting urges and cultural themes; interperonality rivalry
Dissociative Amnesia
from Greek words “a” (Not) and “mnasthia” (To remember); inability to recall important information; formerly known as Psychogenic Amnesia
Localized Amnesia
Person could not recall events for a number of hours or days after a stressful or traumatic accident
Selective Amnesia
Forget only the disturbing particulars in a certain period of time
Generalized Amnesia
Forget their entire lives, who they are, what they do, etc.
Continuous Amnesia
Person forgets everything from a particular time and including the present
Systematized Amnesia
Memory loss is specific to a particular category of information
Malingering
Faking symptoms for personal gain
Dissociative Fugue
Amnesia on the run; from Latin fugere(flight); travel can be purposeful
Amok
in Southeast Asia and Pacific Islands; trance-like where a person suddenly becomes highly excited amd violently attacka
Zar
from North Africa and Middle East; spirit possession; individuals engage in unusual behavior eg. shouting, banging their heads
Brain Metabolic Activity
biological perspective: possible dysfunction in areas of the brain involved with body perception
Normal Sleep-Wake Cycle
biological perspective: dissociative experiences eg. being detached from the body
EMDR
Eye movement and Desensitization and reprocessing; combines CBT techniques of re-learning
