Dissociative Disorders

Dissociative Disorders are characterized by a disturbance in the previously cohesive and unified functions of identity, memory, consciousness, and/or perception of the environment.

Four types of Dissociative Disorders are recognized.

• Dissociative Amnesia is a pervasive loss of memory of significant personal information.

• Dissociative Fugue is a sudden, unplanned excursion away from ones planned itinerary accompanied by either memory loss; or confusion about, loss of, or assumption of a new identity.

• Dissociative Identity Disorder was formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder. It is evidenced by two or more separate personalities or identities that control a persons consciousness at different times, with each being amnesic of the other/s.

• Depersonalization Disorder is evidenced by the sense of being separated from ones cognition's or body without an accompanying breakdown in reality testing.

 

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