Dissociative Disorder

Dissociative Disorder - disruption in integrative functions of memory, consciousness, or identity.

Dissociative identity disorder (multiple personality)
--- Two or more fully developed distinct and unique personalities exist within the person.
--- The host is the primary personality and the other personalities are referred to as alters.
--- The alters may be aware of the host but the host is not usually aware of the alters.

Dissociative amnesia
--- Inability to recall important personal information because it provokes anxiety.

Dissociative Fugue
--- The client assumes a new identity in a new environment.

• When the fugue lifts, the client returns home and is unable to recall the fugue state.

DEPERSONALIZATION disorder
--- An altered self-perception in which one's own reality is temporarily lost or changed.