Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

Dissociative Disorders

Answer 1

primary feature is a disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior

Question 2

Dissociative Identity Disorder

Answer 2

characterized by the existence in one individual of two or more distinct personality states or the experience of possession, with recurrent gaps in the recall of ordinary events, personal information, or traumatic events that is not consistent with ordinary forgetfulness

important to consider culture– dissociative states can be an acceptable expression of religious or cultural beleifs

Question 3

Dissociative Amnesia-

Answer 3

requires an inability to recall important personal information that cannot be attributed to ordinary forgetfulness and that causes clinically significant distress or impaired functioning; often related to exposure to one or more traumatic events

Question 4

Localized amnesia

Answer 4

involves an inability to remember all events related to a circumscribed period of time

Question 5

Selective amnesia

Answer 5

involves an inability to recall some events related to a circumscribed period

Question 6

Generalized amnesia

Answer 6

is characterized by a loss of memory that encompasses the person’s entire life

Question 7

Continuous amnesia

Answer 7

refers to an inability to recall events subsequent to a specific time through the present

Question 8

Systematized amnesia

Answer 8

characterized by an inability to recall memories related to a certain category of information

Question 9

Depersonalization/Derealization Disorder

Answer 9

characterized by persistent or recurrent episodes of depersonalization (a sense of unreality, detachment, or being an outside observer of one’s thoughts feelings, etc.) or derealization (a sense of unhealthy or detachment involving one’s surroundings)

reality testing remains intact during periods of depersonalization of derealization