Dissociative Disorders fragmentation of the personality Minhtri Tran

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. • Involving “fragmentation” of the personality, in which some parts of the personality have become detached, or dissociated, from other parts.

Content • Dissociative disorders include: – Dissociative amnesia – Dissociative fugue – Depersonalization disorder – Dissociative identity disorder

Dissociative amnesia • Definition: A psychologically • Facts: induced loss of memory for – alternative name: Psychogenic amnesia personal information, such as one’s identity or residence. – loss of the ability to retrieve stored memory without any • Symptoms: sign of retrograde apparent neurological damage amnesia, confusion, suffer (more like natural cause than from depression. incident) • Treatment: unavailable medical – patients are unable to retrieve emotional memories normally treatment but therapies such as Clinical hypnosis, • Case study: Psychotherapy, Creative – Edward Lighthard: woke up in Therapies could work 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 • Facts: dissociative amnesia, but – Fugue: (FEWG) means “flight” with the addition of “flight” – Alcohol usage can be one of from one’s home, family, the causes and job. – Domestic violence • Symptoms: creating physical • Case study: “Jane Doe, ” a distance from your real woman with dissociative identity, to runaway, fugue who was found near extreme amnesia. death in a Florida park, • Treatments: same methods, where she was incoherent focus mostly on treating the and suffering the effects of client to overcome the stress exposure. or trauma that triggered the fugue

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 • Facts: which an individual displays – Most such cases occur in women multiple identities, or – A. K. A. “multiple personality personalities disorder • Symptoms: trauma caused – Result of ego defense by the unconscious mechanisms that do not allow (psychoanalysis), mood energy from conflicts and swing, anxiety or panic traumas to escape from the unconscious mind attacks, • 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. htm http: //my. clevelandclinic. org/disorders/Dissociative_Disorders/hic_Dissociative_Identity_Disorder_Multiple_Pers onality_Disorder. aspx -Psychology AP* Edition

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