Hyperglycemia associated dissociative fugue (organic dissociative disorder) in an elderly

Dissociative fugue in the patient of maternity ward – case report

[Dissociative fugue in a maternity ward patient--a case report].

AIM To pay attention to the role of stress connected with delivery, obstetric history, as to the pathologies in the infant as predictors of dissociative disturbances in the patient of the maternity ward. METHOD The case analysis. CASE DESCRIPTION The thirty-year-old woman with secondary education, married and employed had left the maternity ward with her baby unnoticed on the fourth day aft...

Dissociative identity disorder: An empirical overview.

OBJECTIVE Despite its long and auspicious place in the history of psychiatry, dissociative identity disorder (DID) has been associated with controversy. This paper aims to examine the empirical data related to DID and outline the contextual challenges to its scientific investigation. METHODS The overview is limited to DID-specific research in which one or more of the following conditions are ...

Dissociative identity disorder: Medicolegal challenges.

Persons with dissociative identity disorder (DID) often present in the criminal justice system rather than the mental health system and perplex experts in both professions. DID is a controversial diagnosis with important medicolegal implications. Defendants have claimed that they committed serious crimes, including rape or murder, while they were in a dissociated state. Asserting that their alt...

Dissociative identity disorder associated with mania and change in handedness.

OBJECTIVE To investigate the overlap between dissociative and bipolar disorders with reference to their neurophysiological foundations. BACKGROUND Case reports of anomalous lateralization and shifts in handedness associated with both affective and dissociative conditions have intermittently surfaced in the literature. The two disorders are, however, usually considered to be distinct psychopat...