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Class - XII

Psychology

Chapter 4: Psychological Disorders

MODULE - 4

(Topics: Major Psychological Disorders Contd.)

Short Note

Dissociative Disorders-

 Dissociation can be viewed as severance of the connections between ideas and
emotions.
 It involves feeling of unreality, estrangement, depersonalization and loss or shift of
identity.
 They are of 4 categories:

1. Dissociative Amnesia:
 Extensive but selective memory loss that has no known organic cause like head
injury or anything due to overwhelming stress.
 Symptoms- inability to remember the past or specific people, events, places,
names.
2. Dissociative fugue:
 due to unexpected travel away from home or workplace, people sometimes
assume new identity and inability to recall the previous identity.
 The fugue usually ends when person returns to regular life or wakes up.
3. Dissociative identity disorder:
 often referred to as multiple personalities is the most dramatic of these
disorders.
 It is often associated with traumatic experiences in childhood.
4. Depersonalization:
 Involves a dreamlike state in which the person has a sense of being separated
from self and reality both.