Dissociative Disorders

The DSM manual for mental disorders, and the ICD-10 of the World Health Organization provide the minimum criteria needed to diagnosis a mental disorderThe DSM-5 psychiatric manual defines this as "a syndrome characterized by clinically significant disturbance in an individual's cognition, emotion regulation, or behavior that reflects a dysfunction in the psychological, biological, or developmental processes underlying mental functioning. Mental disorders are usually associated with significant distress or disability in social, occupational, or other important activities. An expected or culturally approved response to a common stressor or loss, such as the death of a loved one, is not a mental disorder. Socially deviant behavior (e.g., political, religious, or sexual) and conflicts that are primarily between the individual and society are not mental disorders unless the deviance or conflict results from a dysfunction in the individual, as described above."{{Rp|20}}.

The main Dissociative Disorders are:

• Dissociative amnesia (now including Dissociative fugue)
• Depersonalization disorder (now including derealization)
• Other specified dissociative disorder (OSDD)
• Dissociative identity disorder (DIDDissociative identity disorder is a disorder of mental states, where a individual switches from one distinct state to another distinct state, which distinguished it from OSDD/DDNOS, BPD and PTSD. {{Rp|557-570,487-494,471-486}} {{See also| Dissociative Identity Disorder}})
• Unspecified Dissociative Disorder which is a temporary diagnostic category