Exam 9: Dissociative Disorders

Dissociative amnesia disorder is a completely reversible amnesia that is associated with some form of emotional, traumatic, or psychological stress.

It is very uncommon for an individual diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder to have cross-gender alters.

The person with depersonalization disorder experiences their symptoms as ego-syntonic.

The cause of identity disorders has been attributed to all of the following except for:

When a person reports being recognized by someone unfamiliar to them this may be considered as one of the signs of dissociative identity disorder.

Daydreaming is one example of a non-pathological dissociative event.

Generalized amnesia, as seen in dissociative amnesia, is characterized as:

There has been increasing documentation of a connection between extreme childhood physical and/or sexual trauma and:

In order to diagnose dissociative identity disorder, the clinician or a reliable family member must witness the person's claimed disruption of identity.

In localized amnesia, the affected person is unable to recall events that occurred during a particular time or following a profoundly disturbing event.

Depersonalization disorder occurs when the person feels detached from his or her own body, surroundings, and feels as if another person were observing them.