Dissociative Disorders

• Dissociative Disorders 


  "Psychological flight"
• Dissociative Amnesia 


  Inability to recall important personal information because it is anxiety provoking
• Dissociative Amnesia

  Types:

  • Circumscribed or Localized - occurs few hours after a traumatic event
• Dissociative Amnesia

  Types:

  • Selective - inability to recall of a specific time
• Dissociative Amnesia

  Types:

  • Generalized - inability to recall events of entire life
• Dissociative Amnesia

  Types:

  • Continuous - inability to recall after specific event up to present
• Dissociative Fugue 


  The assumption of a new identity in a new environment
• Dissociative Fugue 


  May drift from place to place
• Dissociative Fugue

  The patient is unaware of the travel
• Depersonalization Disorder 


  An altered self-perception in which one's own reality is temporarily lost or changed.
• Depersonalization Disorder 


  Feelings of detachment
• Dissociative Identity Disorder


  Two or more fully developed distinct and unique personalities within the person.
• Dissociative Identity Disorder formerly known as multiple personality