Dissociative Disorders
- The dissociative disorders involve a disturbance in the integrated organization of identity, memory, perception, or consciousness
- Men = Women
- Symptoms decrease w/ age
- There may be an association between traumatic events (childhood physical or sexual abuse) and dissociative sx
- May arise as a defense against trauma
Tags: Amobarbital, consciousness, cute stress disorder, delerium, dementia, Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue, Dissociative Identity Disorder, impairment in social functioning, integrated organization of identity, memory, memory loss, Pentothal, perception, postconcussion amnesia, repression, selective-memories, somatization disorder, tramatic events, Transient Global Amnesia
