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On the Surface,schizophrenia and Dissociative Identity Disorder May Appear to Be

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On the surface,schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder may appear to be almost identical and are often mistaken for each other.
A) Define each disease,using both the type of disorder (emotion,thought,self) and a description of the disease.
B) Identify and explain two ways (two symptoms) that differentiate between schizophrenia and dissociative identity disorder.


Definitions:

Trait Approach

A perspective in psychology focused on identifying, describing, and measuring individual characteristics and differences in personality.

Personality

A unique set of emotional, thoughts, and behavioral patterns that define an individual.

Collective Unconscious

A concept in Jungian psychology referring to the part of the unconscious mind that is derived from ancestral memory and experience, shared among beings of the same species.

Jung

A Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology, known for his work on the collective unconscious and archetypes.

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