Differentiation of dissociative psychosis, delirious mania, and unspecified dissociative disorder in an adolescent case

Authors : Asya Çankaya, Ali Evren Tufan

Pages : 454-458

Doi:10.31362/patd.1517473

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Publication Date : 2025-04-01

Article Type : Other Papers

Abstract :Dissociative psychosis is a condition that usually occurs after a trauma when psychotic and dissociative symptoms occur together. In this process, disorganized behaviors increase, insight is lost, and hallucinations become worse. It usually results in sudden improvement over a period of several days to several weeks, and most patients remain amnesic into the dissociative psychosis phase. A sixteen-year-old female adolescent was brought in with severe manic and psychotic complaints that started suddenly a week ago. In the mental status examination, disorganized associations, thought content, and auditory and somatic hallucinations were particularly striking. During the hospitalization process, passivity, delusional delusions of misidentification, and disorganized speech and behavior were also observed. The adolescent, whose complaints regressed in the fourth week, was amnesic during the episode. This study aims to present the differential diagnosis and treatment process of dissociative psychosis, delirious mania, and unspecified dissociative disorder in an adolescent female.
Keywords : Psikoz, disosiasyon, ergen, duygu durum bozukluğu