dissociative disorder
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disorders of mental health in which the normally well-integrated functions of memory, identity, perception, or consciousness are separated (dissociated)
Key facts
- Specialty
- Psychiatry , clinical psychology
via Wikipedia infobox
Research
7,874 papers- Dissociative disorders in DSM-5.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2013
- Ganser syndrome - a dissociative disorder or a factitious disorder? A case report.Psychiatria polska · 2022
- The Dissociative Taxon and Dissociative Identity Disorder.Journal of trauma & dissociation : the official journal of the International Society for the Study of Dissociation (ISSD) · 2021
- Dissociative disorders.Annual review of clinical psychology · 2005
- The reasons dissociative disorder patients self-injure.European journal of psychotraumatology · 2022
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- mental disorder
- Subclass of
- disease
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- exact match
- purl.obolibrary.org/obo/DOID_10935
- topic's main category
- Category:Dissociative disorders
- health specialty
- clinical psychology
- NCI Thesaurus ID
- C92197
- ICPC 2 ID
- P75
- has characteristic
- dissociation
- ICD-9-CM
- 300.9
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Encyclopedic overview
Dissociative disorders (DDs) are a range of mental disorders characterized by significant disruptions or fragmentation "in the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior." Dissociative disorders involve involuntary dissociation as an unconscious defense mechanism, wherein the individual with a dissociative disorder experiences separation in these areas as a means to protect against traumatic stress. Some dissociative disorders are caused by major psychological trauma, though the onset of depersonalization-derealization disorder may be preceded by less severe stress, by the influence of psychoactive substances, or occur without any discernible trigger.
Classification
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “dissociative disorder” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.