Dissociative disorders

Question 1

Define dissociative amnesia

Answer 1

characterised by memory loss of important personal information that is usually traumatic in nature.

Question 2

Define dissociative fugue

Answer 2

Characterised by sudden travel away from home associated with partial or complete memory loss about one’s identity

Question 3

Define Dissociative identity disorder

Answer 3

Formerly called multiple personality disorder, the essential feature of dissociative identity disorder is the presence of two or more distinct identities that assume control of the individual’s behaviour.

Question 4

Define Depersonalisation/derealisation disorder

Answer 4

essential feature is persistent or recurrent episodes of depersonalisation or derealisation
Depersonalisation - altered sense of one’s physical being, including feeling that one is outside of one’s body, physically cut off or distanced from people, floating, observing oneself from a distance, as though in a dream
Derealisation - experiencing the environment as unreal or distorted