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| depersonalization/derealization disorder |
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| dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the client's life and prevent normal functioning |
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| situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world |
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| featuring the inability to recall personal information, usually of a stressful or traumatic nature |
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| loss of memory of all personal information, including identity |
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Term
| localized/selective amnesia |
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Definition
| memory loss limited to specific times and events, particularly traumatic events |
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| type of dissociative amnesia featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with an inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity |
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Term
| dissociative identity disorder (DID) |
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Definition
| formerly known as multiple personality disorder; a disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind |
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| dissociative trance disorder |
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| altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are posessed by spirts; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction |
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| shorthand term for alter egos, the different personalities or identities in DID |
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