AP PSYCHOLOGY

Detailed explanation-1: -Sudden temporary alterations of consciousness that blot out painful experiences are a defining characteristic of dissociative disorders. Four conditions are included in this group: dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, and depersonalisation.

Detailed explanation-2: -Dissociative disorders are mental disorders that involve experiencing a disconnection and lack of continuity between thoughts, memories, surroundings, actions and identity.

Detailed explanation-3: -Dissociative identity disorder was previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), sometimes incorrectly called “split personality", it is characterized by the presence of more than one sense of identity within a single human body. These alternate identities are commonly known as alters or dissociated parts.

Detailed explanation-4: -Dissociative disorders involve problems with memory, identity, emotion, perception, behavior and sense of self.

Detailed explanation-5: -The psychodynamic theory of dissociative disorders assumes that dissociative disorders are caused by an individual’s repressed thoughts and feelings related to an unpleasant or traumatic event (Richardson, 1998).