Dissociative Disorder (DID)

Posttraumatic Model

Legit disorder and it links to a strong association with child abuse

Social cognitive/ Iatrogenic Model

Which is not legit and made from clinicians, this is saying child abuse is based on memory, which can be prone to error

Dissociative fugue

Usually lasts for a couple of hours and when someone travels away from home or place of working they dont remember

Dissociative amnesia

Brief with blackout or time loss

Example of subclinical dissociation

Day dreaming or zoning out

what are the 3 defense mechanisms of Dissociative disorder treatment

Dissociation, Splitting, Identification

What is dissociation

an extreme force of repression

what is splitting

see yourself as all good or all bad

what is identification

when they unintentionally pick up descriptions of someone in life (an aggressor)

Explain how dissociation is maintained by negative reinforcement

Dissociation reduces anxiety, because the likelihood that you will have anxiety will occur in the future.

Role of hypnosis

Hypnotizable people such as if a bell is rung, they can be hypnotized and will have some of these disorders such as DID. However self hypnosis help control the dissociation

Narcosynthesis

giving someone a drug to promote therapeutic remembering

Drugs that lead to dissociation

Ketamine, PCP, DXM, LSD, Marijuana

Brain differences

Amygdala & hippocampus

Dissociation

A significant disruption in one’s conscious experience memroysense of identity or any combination of the three without a physical cause

Depersonalization

Distortion in perception of reality which is an out of body experience

Psychogenic memory loss

Forgets everything that happened in a specific period of time

Alter

Different Identitys

Host

The identity that keeps everything together it can be either the true person or the main identity

Switch

Quick transition from one identity to another

Amok

in Malaysia they have a brooding which leads to a violent rampage and they forget what happens after they have done it, usually act wild or in a dangerous manner

Iatrogenic

Condition that is included or aggravated in a patient by a care taker or a health care provider

What is DID

Dissociative identity disorder (Mixed personalities) Split