Briefly Sketch the Hierarchy of Credibility That Deborah Van Den

question 6

Essay

Briefly sketch the hierarchy of credibility that Deborah van den Hoonaard outlines in her work on older women.

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Definitions:

Distinct Personalities

The concept that an individual may exhibit different sets of traits, behaviors, and identities in various contexts, sometimes seen in dissociative identity disorder.

Dissociative Fugue

A rare psychiatric disorder characterized by reversible amnesia for personal identity, including the memories, personality, and other identifying characteristics of individuality.

Dissociative Amnesia

A dissociative disorder in which there is a complete or partial loss of the ability to recall personal information or identify past experiences.

Dissociative Identity Disorder

A severe form of dissociation, a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memory and sense of identity, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.