Dissociative Disorders

Question 1

Dissociative identity d/o

Answer 1

NO DURATION; disruption of identity by 2 or more distinct personality states, “possession,” + recurrent gaps in recall

Question 2

Dissociative amnesia

Answer 2

NO DURATION; inability to recall autobiograph. info usually of a traumatic or stressful nature (amnesia may be selective or general, to an event or all memory); specify with or without dissociate fugue (apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering associ. w/ amnesia for identity or other important autobiographical information).

Question 3

Dissociative amnesia with dissociative fugue

Answer 3

see above.

Question 4

Depersonalization/derealization d/o

Answer 4

NO DURATION; experiences of depersonalization, derealization, or both.