Chapter 7

1. Re-experiencing (flashbacks, nightmares)


2. Avoidance & Numbing (self-medicating)


3. Increased arousal (irritability & hypervigilance)

gender, age, race, early unresolved trauma, coping skills, developmental stage. family dysfunction

subjective experienc of unreality in one's sense of self; sense of being detached from one's mind or body.

feeling like a stranger in ones own skin.

Inabilit to recall important personal info, usually of a traumatic or stressful nature.

common experiences: blackouts, disremembered behavior, appearance of unexplained possesions, perplexing changes in relationships, fragmentary recall of life history

loss of memory from a specific time and continues to the present, prevents retention in memory of new experiences.

loss of memory about a certain category of information.

Multiple personality disorder or split personality disorder, parts of personality are completly different and triggered by responses.

Usually 2-4 identities/ personality states/ self-states/ alter identities

very complex effects of trauma and distubances in memory and amnesia, It is strongly linked to severe experiences of early childhood physical and sexual abuse.

Tend to identify with certain personality qualities while splitting off other qualities

A series of short-term psychotherapies stage pattern within the flow of a single long-term treatment of the traumatized

Phase of:

• safety


• remembrance and mourning


• reconnection

• establishing the psychotheraphy


• preliminary interventions


• hisory gathering and mapping


• metabolism of the trauma


• moving toward integration/resolution


• integration-resolution


• learning new coping skills


• solidification of gains and working throug


• follow up