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A dissociative state involving apparently purposeful travel or bewildered wandering, accompanied by loss of memory for identity or other important personal information.
Fugue
A disruption in the normal connection among awareness, memory, identity, emotions, perception, or behavior.
Dissociation
The qualities, standards, and characteristics a person would like to possess—the person they aspire to become.
Self-ideal
Intentional harmful or offensive physical contact without consent or other lawful justification.
Battery
Expressing one’s feelings, needs, opinions, and boundaries directly and respectfully while respecting others’ rights.
Assertiveness
Feeling that one’s surroundings are unreal, distant, dreamlike, or unfamiliar.
Derealization
How a person carries out the behaviors and responsibilities associated with their roles, such as student, parent, partner, or employee.
Role performances
The overall collection of beliefs and perceptions a person holds about who they are.
Self-concept
The intentional use of physical force or power, threatened or actual, that causes or is likely to cause injury, psychological harm, deprivation, or death.
Violence
Recurrent difficulty resisting urges to steal objects that are not needed for personal use or monetary value, often with tension before stealing and relief or gratification afterward.
Kleptomania
A poorly integrated or unstable sense of who one is, including uncertainty about personal values, goals, roles, or characteristics.
Identity diffusion
Partial or complete loss of memory for information or experiences, beyond ordinary forgetting.
Amnesia
Expressing difficult feelings or conflicts through actions rather than recognizing and discussing them, often in impulsive or disruptive ways.
Acting out
Behavior intended to threaten, intimidate, or harm another person, oneself, or property; it may be verbal or physical.
Aggression
A disorder involving recurrent, impulsive aggressive outbursts that are far out of proportion to the situation and cause distress, impairment, or harmful consequences.
Intermittent explosive disorder
A person’s perceptions, thoughts, and feelings about their body’s appearance, size, abilities, and functioning.
Body image
A disorder involving two or more distinct identity states, disruptions in the sense of self and control over actions, and recurring memory gaps beyond ordinary forgetting.
Dissociative identity disorder (DID)
A condition involving significant disruptions in memory, identity, awareness, or perception that cause distress or interfere with functioning.
Dissociative disorder
A disorder involving repeated, deliberate fire-setting associated with fascination with fire, tension beforehand, and pleasure or relief afterward, rather than an external purpose such as financial gain.
Pyromania
Indirect expression of anger or resistance, such as deliberate procrastination, obstruction, or apparent agreement followed by intentional failure to follow through.
Passive aggression
Involuntary episodes of altered awareness or identity that cause distress or impairment and are not part of an accepted cultural or religious practice.
Dissociative trance disorder
Feeling detached from oneself, as though one’s body, thoughts, or actions are unreal or being observed from outside.
Depersonalization
The ability to pause, consider consequences, and resist or delay an urge to act.
Impulse control
In the traditional civil-law definition, an intentional act that causes someone to reasonably anticipate immediate harmful or offensive contact; physical contact is not required.
Assault
An emotional response to perceived frustration, threat, unfairness, or hurt.
Anger
A person’s evaluation of their own worth and value.
Self-esteem
A person’s sense of being a unique individual with continuity over time, including their characteristics, values, and life experiences.
Personal identity
An altered state of awareness involving narrowed attention and reduced awareness of surroundings; it is not necessarily a disorder.
Trance