Dissociation is characterized by a disruption of usually integrated functions of memory, consciousness, identity, or perception of the environment.

~ American Psychiatric Association

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the essential feature of the Dissociative Disorders is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity,or perception

~ American Psychiatric Association

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