Margaret case
Psychology paper #4 May, 10, 2013 Margaret Case Since antiquity, human exposes to many environmental stresses that lead to behavioral changes. These changes were studied by experts, which we call psychologists nowadays. Psychologist’s analysis human behaviors, define the type of stress that influence it and then try to fix that abnormal behaviors by one of the treatments. In the beginning, psychologists were unable to define some of abnormal behavioral changes (disorders) and what might cause these changes. However, later this science evolved through the psychologist, who faced a lot of cases and who were able to understand the behavioral disorders. In this paper I will follow the footprints of these psychologists in order to diagnose one of the patients, and in order to help her to get her normal life back. The patient name is Margaret. She is a clerical worker at manufacturing company. Recently, Margaret stopped going to her work due to many mental problems. When she came to the clinic, she complained about some of the feelings and the things that made her life abnormal. She said that she often awoke feeling deplorable on Monday’s. Moreover, Margaret explained that she suffers from Amnesia, which means that she lost the time and the memory. She rarely remembers what she usually does in the weekends. Margaret also complained that she can’t understand how sometime she would find a stranger man in her bed or receive a call from men that she never met, who called her “Janie”. Suddenly, while Margaret was describing her sufferance in the therapy session, she started to talk and to act like a kid who refers to herself as Suzie. Thus, based on these symptoms, it’s clear that she suffers from dissociative identity disorder