Diagnostic criteria and codes - dissociative disorders

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What is criteria A for dissociative amnesia?

An inability to recall important autobiographical information. Usually of traumatic or stressful nature.

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?

Specify if:
  • 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?

The presence of persistent or recurrent experiences of depersonalisation and/or derealisation.
  1. Depersonalization : Feeling detached from body (sense of unreality of self)
  2. 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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