Abnormal Psychology: Dissociative Disorders
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Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 What are "dissociations"? | sever alterations or detachments. |
| What are the significant impairments in dissociations? | identity, memory, consciousness. |
| Depersonalization definition. | lose your sense of your own reality. |
| Derealization definition. | lose your reality of external world. |
| Clinical description of depersonalization disorder? | feelings of unreality or detachments . |
| Tests for depersonalization disorder? | neuropsychology tests. |
| What is dessociative amnesia? | episodes of psychogenica memory loss. |
| What is dissociative fugue? | fugue is travel, so it is when a person is unable to remember how or why they arrived somewhere. |
| Clinical description of dissociative identity disorder (DID)? | multiple personalities, amnesia, adopt several new identities. |
| What is the average number of identities adopted? | 15. |
| What is the Host? | the personality that seeks treatment. |
| What is the Switch? | the transition from 1 personality to the next. |
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