Schizophrenia and Dissociative Disorders

The following would be characterized by a person having 2 or more separate and distinct personality states (identities):

• Schizophrenia

• Dissociative Fugue

• Dissociative Amnesia

• Dissociative Identity Disorder

In Dissociative Identity Disorder, the different identities are referred to as:

• Dissociations

• Mutations

• Alters

• Deviations

In Dissociative Identity Disorder, each personality can exhibit differences such as allergies, right-handedness/left-handedness, gender orientation, etc.

• True

• False

Dissociative Identity Disorder was previously called:

• Dissociative Amnesia

• Multiple Personality Disorder

• Dissociative Fugue

• Persistent Personality Disorder

When a person blocks out certain information, usually associated with a stressful or traumatic event, leaving him or her unable to remember important personal information, they would be exhibiting the following disorder:

• Dissociative Amnesia

• Dissociative Fugue

• Depersonalization Disorder

• Dissociative Identity Disorder

People with this disorder temporarily lose their sense of personal identity and impulsively wander or travel away from their homes or places of work. They often become confused about who they are and might even create new identities. Outwardly, people with this disorder show no signs of illness, such as strange appearance or odd behavior.

• Dissociative Amnesia

• Dissociative Fugue

• Depersonalization Disorder

• Dissociative Identity Disorder

Marked by periods of feeling disconnected or detached from one’s body and thoughts (like being in a dream). People with this disorder do not lose contact with reality; they realize that things are not as they appear. An episode can last a few

• Dissociative Amnesia

• Dissociative Fugue

• Depersonalization Disorder

• Dissociative Identity Disorder

Delusions affect most people with schizophrenia.

• True

• False

People with Schizophrenia most often experience the following type of hallucination:

• Auditory

• Visual

• Taste

• Tingling

In terms of schizophrenic symptoms, a false belief not based in reality is known as a/an:

• Distortion

• Relapse

• Delusion

• Fallacy