Diagnostic criteria and codes - dissociative disorders
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What is criteria A for dissociative amnesia?
Note: Dissociative amnesia most often consists of localized or selective amnesia for a specific event or events; or generalized amnesia for identity and life history.
Specifiers for dissociative amnesia?
- with dissociative fugue: apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering that is associated with amnesia for identity or for other important autobiographical information.
What is criteria A for depersonalisation/derealization disorder?
- Depersonalization : Feeling detached from body (sense of unreality of self)
- Derealization: unreality of surroundings (world is unreal)
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What is criteria A for other specified dissociative disorder?
- Chronic and recurrent syndromes of mixed dissociative symptoms
- Identity disturbance due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion (brainwash)
- Acute dissociative reactions to stressful events
- Dissociative trance; complete loss of surroundings>unresponsiveness
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