With intense cases of dissociative identity disorder, there distant memory variations that hinders a person's ability to recall personal information. In order to discover if a person has dissociative identity disorder, they must be given a screening test. Although there is not a specific dissociative identity disorder test used for diagnosis, psychiatrists use psychometric tests and psychological assessments to evaluate an individual. These tests are usually questionnaires pertaining to the persons everyday life, childhood memories, family history, and decision making. These questions include recalling of events throughout their life or any out of body experiences.
In this case, your subconscious mind doesn’t want you to remember what happened because it may negatively affect your mood. However, these memories don't just disappear; they continue to influence our behavior. For example, a person who has repressed memories of abuse suffered as a child may later have difficulty forming relationships.
For most people, the voices they hear present no problem and are not associated with schizophrenia. Delusions Usually strongly held beliefs or experiences that are not in line with a generally accepted reality. Delusions associated with schizophrenia are probably distressing for you, or those around you, as they may be unusual or extreme. For instance, a patient might believe secret agents are following them or that outside forces are controlling or putting thoughts into their mind Negative Symptoms: Being withdrawn, being apathetic, and being unable to concentrate are all described as ‘negative’ rather than ‘positive’, because they show a reduction in thought or function. It can be very difficult to tell whether negative symptoms are part of the schizophrenia, or whether they are present because you are reacting to other frightening or distressing symptoms.
The explanation suggests that the primary caregiver is responsible for helping the infant overcome its anxieties and if the care is inadequate then a child will not develop a proper sense of self. Therefore during adolescence when threats to the self occur the symptoms of schizophrenia begin to develop. However, the psychodynamic explanation to schizophrenia has many problems, for example: Freud claimed that schizophrenia is caused by over-whelming anxiety and is a defence mechanism involving regression into an early stage of development. Freud suggested that one of the positive symptoms of the disorder, hallucinations are the ego’s attempt to restore contact with reality. However there isn’t any research evidence to support Freud’s theory and psychoanalysis is not an effective treatment for schizophrenia suggesting that the psychodynamic theory does not explain the causes of schizophrenia.
More than one interview is usually necessary to make a diagnosis (Tutorial Letter 101, PYC 4802, 2011). 3.2.5 Multitude of Symptoms Although the DSM classification requires that at least five of the official nine symptoms are present before a diagnosis can be made, there are approximately 200 different combinations for these symptoms to present in a patient. This complicates diagnosis further. The nine symptoms are the following: efforts to avoid abandonment; impulsivity; identity disturbance; unstable interpersonal relationships; suicidality; mood instability; chronic emptiness; inappropriate anger and paranoid ideation or dissociation (Hoffman,
Traub (2009) discusses the reliability of Dissociative Identity Disorder identification and categorization. Many believe that the DID is a symptom after a traumatic event, he states that “… the disorder is a defensive response that results naturally from continuous and tremendous childhood trauma, particularly from physical and sexual abuse” (Traub, 2009, p. 348). He talks about different sections, addressing whether Dissociative Identity Disorders are reliable diagnosis.. In the category of childhood trauma, Traub (2009) talks about how many psychiatrists believe the cause of many of the DID cases are due to trauma when they were children, especially in those that deal with an accumulation of traumatic events. People that advocates for DID states that it is necessary for childhood trauma to be predecessor and cause of this particular disorder.
When a patient has a thought disorder, this usually means he or she has difficulty organizing thoughts. Either he thinks dysfunctional or has unusual ways of thinking. For example, a patient may not leave his house in fear his world is out to get him.
In residential treatments, behavioral therapy could work well with play therapy because the children who stay in a treatment facility might have not of had a perfect childhood and these children might not know how to play. Cognitive behavioral therapy works because it can change the way an individual thinks. When an individual is suicidal, the individual thinks of ways to commit suicide and also thinks that he or she is not worthy of anything to anyone. The individual can feel that he or she would not even be noticed if he or she were gone. Cognitive
Because sexual abuse is such a disturbing incident, false accusations of sexual abuse have huge, if not shocking, consequences for families. There is a bit of controversy about false memory syndrome, on one side by those who believe that the memories are not true, and on the other side by those who say that people who have committed the sexual abuse acts are using false memory syndrome to question allegations against them. The effects of memories such as these rising to the surface, whether they are actual memories or not, is often devastating to formerly functional families. The article in question has taken on the view from the False Memory Society in which the accused has stated that the accusations are false. The article revolves around one daughter who is split on whether to believe her sister’s letter about her father sexual assaulting her when she was 2 or to believe that her father is innocent.
12/7/2013 Reni Childhood Trauma & Dissociative Identity Disorder Abnormal Psychology Fall PSYC Childhood Trauma and Dissociative Identity Disorder Dissociative identity disorder (DID), previously known as multiple personality disorder, is a severe form of dissociation; a mental process that produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity. DID is believed to be the effect of severe trauma suffered during childhood. It’s believed that experiencing extreme, repetitive physical, sexual, or emotional abuse causes the disassociation, and as a result, a coping mechanism develops – the individual dissociates himself from the situation or experience that is too violent,