Depersonalization disorder is considered to be a common clinical phenomenon and disorder with an enormous gap between prevalence and detection partly due to the common interpretation of depersonalization (DP) being a negligible variant of anxiety and depression. Therefore, we sought to analyze (1) the prevalence rate of DP in a large community sample (n=5000) according to a recently developed u...

AIMS To examine demographic and clinical features of a group of patients reporting chronic depersonalization (DP) following illicit drug use, and to assess whether depersonalization arising in these circumstances constitutes a distinct clinical syndrome. DESIGN Case-control comparison using self-reports, standardized questionnaires and clinical assessments in a specialized clinic. SETTING A...

Dear Editor Depersonalization (DP), long a complex and obscure subject of clinical psychiatry, has become a recurrent topic of psychopathology in the last 10 years. Often accompanied by derealization, a threatening sense of unreality in the environment, which also appears unfamiliar, DP is defined as an experience of ‘unreality’ and ‘detachment’ from the self. But in clinical practice DP can ha...

Patients with depersonalization disorder (DP) experience a detachment from their own senses and surrounding events, as if they were outside observers. A particularly common symptom is emotional detachment from the surroundings. Using functional magnetic resonance imaging (fMRI), we compared neural responses to emotionally salient stimuli in DP patients, and in psychiatric and healthy control su...

BACKGROUND "Depersonalization" (DP) is a common symptom in the general population and psychiatric patients (Michal et al., 2011 [1]). DP is characterized by an alteration in the experience of the self, so that one feels detached from his or her own mental processes or body (or from the world), feeling as being an outside observer of his or her own self, and loosing the experience of unity and i...

: Emotional exhaustion (EE), depersonalization (DP), as well a diminished sense of personal accomplishment (PA) was identified the three subscales defining burnout syndrome, all which contribute to person's inefficiency on job. More than half physicians experience severe burnout.

Background: Burnout is a syndrome conceptualized as resulting from chronic workplace stress that has not been successfully managed. described in health-care workers and reported to be common primary health care physicians. This study aimed assess the prevalence rate of burnout, its associated factors, amongst doctors cluster one area, Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Methods: cross-sectional design. The s...

Depersonalization (DP), i.e., feelings of being detached from one's own mental processes or body, can be considered as a form of mental escape from the full experience of reality. This mental escape is thought to be etiologically linked with maltreatment during childhood. The detached state of consciousness in DP contrasts with certain aspects of mindfulness, a state of consciousness characteri...

Background & Aims: Excessive stress in addition to causing physical and psychological problems in General Practitioners (GPs), can lead to decreased quality of patient care. This research aimed to find the frequency of burnout in general practitioners of Kerman city. Methods: This descriptive analytic study was carried out on 150 GPS in Kerman city in 2009. Data gathering was done by Maslach qu...