dissociative disorder
Noun: A mental health condition characterized by a severe disruption in the normally integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior. This breakdown leads to a disconnection or split between thoughts, identity, consciousness, and memory.
This term is used in clinical psychology and psychiatry to formally classify a group of disorders. It describes a state where a person experiences a detachment from reality or their sense of self.
- The patient was diagnosed with a dissociative disorder following a traumatic event.
- Symptoms of a dissociative disorder can include amnesia, identity confusion, and a feeling of detachment from one's own body.
- Treatment for a dissociative disorder often involves psychotherapy.
- "to be diagnosed with a dissociative disorder": to receive a formal medical classification for this condition.
- After extensive evaluation, she was diagnosed with a dissociative disorder.
- "symptoms of a dissociative disorder": the specific signs or experiences indicative of this condition.
- The therapist noted several key symptoms of a dissociative disorder.
- Dissociation (n): The mental process of disconnecting from one's thoughts, feelings, memories, or sense of identity. This is the core symptom underlying dissociative disorders.
- Dissociative (adj): Relating to or involving dissociation.
- She experienced dissociative episodes.
- Dissociative condition
- Dissociative psychopathology
This term has a specific clinical meaning in mental health. It does not have common non-clinical meanings.
No common idioms are directly formed from this specific clinical term.
This is a noun phrase and does not have associated phrasal verbs.
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dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down
