Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Or more obviously know as multi-personality disorder.
- Often has an association with memory loss as well as normal forgetfulness.
- Examples of where this has been explored in the media:
- 'Sybil' (1970) is a film about a girl who's had a traumatising life leads to her developing 16 other personalities.
- Cast: Sally Field as Sybil and Jessica Lange as Dr. Wilbur
Depersonalisation
- The sufferer believes they are living in a dream world, the feeling of watching oneself act whilst having no control over the situation.
- Found in those who suffer from anxiety and panic attacks.
- "Life is like a movie, unreal and hazy."
- One way to describe the physical manifesto is to compare it to a film technique called the vertigo show or dolly zoom. In the shot the subject stays fixed whilst the surrounding background is pulled away providing a sense of vertigo or detachment.
- Cindy Sherman makes reference to this in her work.
Psychotic Disorders/Depression
- Schizophrenia
- Where the sufferer will experience hallucinations of images or sounds that are not real and delusions which are false but the ill person accepts them as truth despite the contrary evidence.
- Capgras Syndrome
- The illusion of doubles.
- A person's belief that an acquaintance or friend has been replaced bt an identical looking imposter.
- Often occurs in patients with other psychotic disorders such as Schizophrenia. But also with people suffering from Epilepsy, Dementia and after traumatic brain injuries.
- Cotard Syndrom "Walking Corpse Syndrom"
- The sufferer believes that they are putrefying, have lost blood or internal organs or are already deceased and therefore do not exist.
Todd Syndrome
- Neurologic condition in which the sufferers sense of body image, space and/or time are distorted.
- Altered sense of velocity produced by the weird sense of size, perspective and time.
- Also know as Alice in Wonderland syndrome.
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