Dissociative fugue
Featuring sudden, unexpected travel away from home, along with inability to recall the past, sometimes with assumption of a new identity.
Factitious disorders
Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly, sympathy and attention.
Dissociative trance disorder (DTD)
Altered state of consciousness in which people firmly believe they are possessed by spirits; considered a disorder only where there is distress and dysfunction.
Hypochondriasis
Somatoform disorder involving severe anxiety over belief in having a disease process without any evident physical cause.
Somatization disorder
Somatoform disorder involving extreme and long lasting focus on multiple physical symptoms for which no medical cause is evident.
Derelizarion
Situation in which the individual loses a sense of the reality of the external world.
Dissociative identity disorder ( DID)
Disorder in which as many as 100 personalities or fragments of personalities coexist within one body and mind. Formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
Dissociative amnesia
Dissociative disorder featuring the inability to recall personal information; usually of a stressful or traumatic nature.
Pain Disorder
Somatoform disorder featuring true pain but which psychological factors play an important role in onset, severity, or maintenance.
Conversion disorder
Physical malfunction, such as blindness or paralysis, suggesting neurological impairment but no organic pathological to account for it .
Malingering
Deliberate faking of a physical or psychological disorder motivated by gain.
Localized or selective amnesia
Memory loss limited to specific times and events, particular traumatic events.
Body Dysmorphic disorder (BDD)
Somatoform disorder featuring a disruptive preoccupation with some imagined defect in appearance (“imagined ugliness”)
Depersonalization disorder
Dissociative disorder in which feelings of depersonalization are so severe they dominate the individuals life and prevent normal functioning.
Somatoform disorder
Pathological concern individuals with the appearance or functioning of their bodies, usually in the absence of any identifiable medical condition.
Dissociative disorder
Disorder in which individuals feel detached from themselves or their surroundings and the feel reality, experience, and identity may disintegrate.
Alters
Shorthand term for alter ego, one of the different personalities or identities in dissociative identity disorder.
Generalized amnesia
Loss of memory of all personal information, including identity.
Factitious disorder
Nonexistent physical or psychological disorder deliberately faked for no apparent gain except, possibly, sympathy, and attention.