Mental Dissociation

**Mental dissociation** is a defense mechanism of the psyche in which a person renounces his personality and divides his personality into two or more components. A person in this state no longer feels his own integrity. At the same time, he can hear different voices and perceive them as important; he can answer them, communicate, as if talking to himself alone. Sometimes one of the voices takes on a leadership function, but this does not mean that the person is completely subordinate only to it. As a rule, these roles replace each other.

Diagnosis of mental dissociation is carried out using a variety of methods, including the questionnaire for the diagnosis of schizophrenia (MMPI 2), the Zung and Blazhko scale and others. It should be noted that the term “dissociative fugue”