Dissociative disorders
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Dissociative Disorders[1] are defined as conditions that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception. The hypothesis is that symptoms can result, to the extent of interfering with a person's general functioning, when one or more of these functions is disrupted.
The four dissociative disorders listed in the DSM IV TR are as follows:
- Depersonalization disorder (DSM-IV Codes 300.6[1]) - periods of detachment from self or surrounding which may be experienced as "unreal" (lacking in control of or "outside of" self) while retaining awareness that this is only a feeling and not a reality.
- Derealization disorder feeling as though one's environment is lacking in spontaneity, emotional colouring and depth.
- Dissociative Amnesia (DSM-IV Codes 300.12[1]) - noticeable impairment of recall resulting from emotional trauma
- Dissociative fugue (DSM-IV Codes 300.13[1]) - physical desertion of familiar surroundings and experience of impaired recall of the past. This may lead to confusion about actual identity and the assumption of a new identity.
- Dissociative identity disorder (DSM-IV Codes 300.14[1]) - the alternation of two or more distinct personality states with impaired recall, among personality states, of important information.
In addition, there's the diagnosis of dissociative disorder not otherwise specified (DSM-IV Codes 300.15[1]) which can be used for forms of pathological dissociation not covered by any of the specified dissociative disorders.
In a 2007 study, only 28.7% of the dissociative participants had received psychiatric treatment previously[1].
See also
- Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV
- Dissociation (psychology)
- Multiple personality controversy
- DID/MPD in fiction
References
External links
- Depersonalization Community – Support site for those suffering from dissociative disorders.
- DSM IV TR classification of dissociative disorders (in the context of the whole classification system)de:Dissoziation (Psychologie)
