PSY 3010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Acute Stress Reaction, Fugue State, Dissociative Identity Disorder
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Stress disorder, acute stress disorder, or somatization disorder and is not due to direct physiological effects of a substance or a neurological or other general medical condition (e. g. , head injury): symptoms cause significant distress or impairment in functioning. Note: in children, symptoms are not due to imaginary playmates or other fantasy play. Depersonalization/derealization disorder: diagnostic criteria: persistent or recurrent experience of depersonalization, derealization, or both: Depersonalization involves feeling unreal, as if detached from and/or observing oneself from outside with regard to thoughts, feelings, behavior, sensations/one"s body (e. g. , feelings unreal, distorted time perception, etc. ) Disorder, acute stress disorder, or another dissociative disorder, and is not due to direct physiological effects of a substance or a general medical condition (e. g. , epilepsy). This is reserved for disorders in which primary feature is a dissociative symptom that does not meet the criteria for any specific dissociative disorder.
