Dissociative disorders

mental disorder, characterized by multiple personality states and amnesia

In psychiatry, depersonalization is a dissociative phenomenon characterized by a subjective feeling of detachment from oneself, manifesting as a sense of disconnection from one's thoughts, emotions, sensations, or actions, and often accompanied by a feeling of observing oneself from an external perspective. Those affected often feel as though they are observing the world from a distance, as if separated by a barrier "behind glass". They maintain insight into the subjective nature of their experience, recognizing that it pertains to their own perception rather than altering objective reality. T

mild detachment from immediate surroundings to more severe detachment from physical and emotional experience

disorders of mental health in which the normally well-integrated functions of memory, identity, perception, or consciousness are separated (dissociated)

Derealization is an alteration in the perception of the external world, causing those with the condition to perceive it as unreal, distant, distorted, or in other ways falsified. Other symptoms include feeling as if one's environment lacks spontaneity, emotional coloring, and depth. Described as "Experiences of unreality or detachment with respect to surroundings (e.g., individuals or objects are experienced as unreal, dreamlike, foggy, lifeless or visually distorted)" in the DSM-5, it is a dissociative symptom that may appear in moments of severe stress.

dissociative disorder in which the sufferer is affected by persistent or recurrent feelings of depersonalization and/or derealization

rare dissociative disorder previously classified as a factitious disorder

dissociative disorder affecting memory

dissociative disorder

thumb|200px|Matryoshka doll|Stacking dolls provide a visual representation of subpersonalities. A subpersonality is, in humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology and ego psychology, a personality mode that activates (appears on a temporary basis) to allow a person to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations. Similar to a complex, the mode may include thoughts, feelings, actions, physiology and other elements of human behavior to self-present a particular mode that works to negate particular psychosocial situations. American transpersonal philosopher Ken Wilber and English human

dissociative mental disorder

cluster of dissociative disorders