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<psychiatry> Alteration in the perception of the self so that the usual sense of one's own reality is lost, manifested in a sense of unreality or self estrangement, in changes of body image or in a feeling that one does not control his own actions and speech, seen in depersonalisation disorder, schizophrenic disorders and schizotypal personality disorder. Some do not draw a distinction between depersonalisation and derealisation, using depersonalisation to include both.
This entry appears with permission from the Dictionary of Cell and Molecular Biology
(11 Mar 2008)
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