Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

what are the disorders categorized as Dissociative Disorders?

Answer 1

1. Dissociative Identity Disorder
2. Dissociative Amnesia
3. Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder

Question 2

what is the host?

Answer 2

the host is the core personality

Question 3

what are the alters?

Answer 3

the alters are the personalities other than the host

Question 4

what brain structures are affected in DID?

Answer 4

1. Hippocampus (for memory)
2. Amygdala (emotions and associated with memory)
3. Parahippocampal Gyrus

Question 5

what is another name for Dissociative Amnesia?

Answer 5

psychogenic amnesia

Question 6

this type of amnesia makes someone forget all events during a specific time interval

Answer 6

localized amnesia

Question 6

this type of amnsia can make someone recall some, but not all, of the events during a period of time

Answer 6

selective amnesia

Question 7

this type of amnesia can make someone not have the ability to remember anything from their life

Answer 7

generalized amnesia

Question 8

this type of amnesia makes someone lose memory for a specific category of information

Answer 8

systemized amnesia

Question 8

this type of amnesia makes someone forget each new event as it occurs

Answer 8

continuous amnesia

Question 9

this term refers to feeling like you are an outside observer of your own thoughts, feelings, or actions, as if you are watching yourself from a distance or a bubble

Answer 9

depersonalization

Question 10

this term refers to the sense that your surroundings are unreal, dreamlike, or distorted, as if you are looking at the world through a foggy or distorted lens

Answer 10

derealization

Question 11

what does it mean when someone has dissociative amnesia, with dissociative fugue

Answer 11

the client has apparently purposeful ly travelled or has been bewildered wandering that is associated with amnesia for identity or for other important autobiographical information.

Question 12

what is the difference between DID and Spiritual Possession?

Answer 12

1. DID identities present recurrently
2. DID identities are unwanted and involuntary

Question 13

this term refers to gaps in a client’s memory about some aspects of their personal history; lapses in dependable measure; discovery of evidence of their everyday actions and tasks that they do not recall doing

Answer 13

amnesia