Dissociative Disorders

Dissociative Disorders
Medical Dictionary
Definition of medical terminology for Dissociative Disorders.

What is Dissociative Disorders?
Dissociative disorders (as described in the DSM-IV-TR classification system) are disorder with the essential feature of disrupted "consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment.

Treatment for dissociative disorders may include psychotherapy, hypnosis and medication.

Dissociative Disorders
There are a wide range of psychological issues that can impact people. One group of issues that affects quite a few people are dissociative disorders.

Dissociative disorders are disorders where there is a disruption of the normal integration of consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment.

Dissociative Disorders
Dissociation is a cognitive process through which memory and attention become altered.

dissociative disorders
Overview: Dissociative disorders occur when individuals involuntarily try to escape from reality. For instance, patients may suppress troubling memories or even take on alternative identities.

Dissociative disorders
Introduction
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Dissociative disorders
Eating disorders
Impulse control disorders
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Dissociative Disorders
Dissociative Amnesia
Dissociative Identity Disorder
Impulse Control Disorders ...

Definition The dissociative disorders are a group of mental disorders that affect consciousness defined as causing significant interference with the patient's general functioning, including social relationships and employment.

Current diagnostic categories that include similar symptomatologies are those of conversion disorders or dissociative disorders.

Overwhelming stress usually causes dissociative disorders. The stress may be caused by experiencing or witnessing a traumatic event, accident, or disaster. It may be also caused by a person experiencing inner conflict.

See also Dissociation/Dissociative disorders
BOOKS
Linehan, Marsha. Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Borderline Personality Disorder.New York: Guilford Press, 1993.

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Psychologic disturbances of memory result from extreme psychologic trauma or stress (see Dissociative Disorders: Dissociative Amnesia).

See also: Symptom, Trauma, Stress, Abuse, Mental Disorders