Abstract
The word dissociation is defined as the act of dissociating or the state of being dissociated. It can also stand for the splitting off of a group of mental processes from the main body of consciousness. In psychiatry, the term is used to describe the reversible separation of elements of “identity, memory or consciousness” (APA, 2000) from the mainstream of consciousness or of behavior, as in dissociative amnesia, fugue, depersonalization, or dissociative identity disorder. The word comes from the Latin verb dissociate, meaning to separate, to disunite; dis, meaning asunder; and sociare, meaning to unite.
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