dissociative disorder

dissociative disorder

n.

See multiple personality.

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dissociative disorder

n

(Psychology) Psychol an emotional disorder characterized by fugue states or multiple personality

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dissociative disorder - dissociation so severe that the usually integrated functions of consciousness and perception of self break down folie, mental disorder, mental disturbance, psychological disorder, disturbance - (psychiatry) a psychological disorder of thought or emotion; a more neutral term than mental illness depersonalisation, depersonalisation disorder, depersonalisation neurosis, depersonalization, depersonalization disorder, depersonalization neurosis - emotional dissociative disorder in which there is loss of contact with your own personal reality accompanied by feelings of unreality and strangeness fugue, psychogenic fugue - dissociative disorder in which a person forgets who they are and leaves home to creates a new life; during the fugue there is no memory of the former life; after recovering there is no memory for events during the dissociative state multiple personality, split personality - a relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge disassociation, dissociation - a state in which some integrated part of a person's life becomes separated from the rest of the personality and functions independently