Tuesday, February 4, 2014

Dissociative Disorders

Dissociative disorders involve a disruption in the conscious process

THREE TYPES

Psychogenic Amnesia: a person cannot remember things with no physiological basis for the disruption in memory
-Retrograde Amnesia
-Not organic amnesia

Dissociative Fugue: people with psychogenic amnesia find themselves in an unfamiliar environment

Dissociative Identity Disorder: person who has several rather than one integrated personality
-People with DID commonly have a history of childhood abuse or trauma

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