Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

Persistent unreality or detachment from oneself and/or unreality or detachment from one’s surroundings accompanied by intact reality testing

Answer 1

Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder

Question 2

Inability to recall autobiographical information which may be generalized (identity and life history), localized (event or period of time) or selective (specific aspect of event) and may or may not involve dissociative fugue (purposeful travel or wandering)

Answer 2

Dissociative Amnesia

Question 3

Presence of two or more distinct personality states (or experience of possession) and recurrent episodes of amnesia

Answer 3

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Question 4

Dissociative-like symptoms that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but does not meet full criteria and clinician specifies the reason

Answer 4

Other Specified Dissociative Disorder

ex. dissociative trance, acute dissociative reactions to stressful events

Question 5

Dissociative-like symptoms that cause clinically significant distress or impairment but does not meet full criteria and clinician does not choose to communicate the reason, possibly due to insufficient information to make more specific diagnosis

Answer 5

Unspecified Dissociative Disorder

Question 6

Group of disorders characterized by disruption and/or discontinuity in normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control and behavior

Answer 6

Dissociative Disorders