What is Dissociation (psychology)?
'''Dissociation''' in [[psychology]] is an experience that involves a detachment/separation from [[reality]]. It is different from [[psychosis]], psychosis is a loss of reality.<ref>{{Cite journal|last=Dell|first=Paul F.|date=2006-03-01|title=A New Model of Dissociative Identity Disorder|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0193953X05000961|journal=Psychiatric Clinics of North America|series=Dissociative Disorders: An Expanding Window into the Psychobiology of the Mind|language=en|volume=29|issue=1|pages=1–26|doi=10.1016/j.psc.2005.10.013|pmid=16530584|issn=0193-953X}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|date=1996-08-01|title=In this issue of The American Journal of Psychiatry|url=https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.153.8.A42|journal=American Journal of Psychiatry|volume=153|issue=8|pages=42–63|doi=10.1176/ajp.153.8.A42|pmid=8659641|issn=0002-953X|last1=Butler|first1=L. D.|last2=Duran|first2=R. E.|last3=Jasiukaitis|first3=P.|last4=Koopman|first4=C.|last5=Spiegel|first5=D.}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Gleaves|first1=David H|last2=May|first2=Mary C|last3=Cardeña|first3=Etzel|date=2001-06-01|title=An examination of the diagnostic validity of dissociative identity disorder|url=http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0272735899000732|journal=Clinical Psychology Review|language=en|volume=21|issue=4|pages=577–608|doi=10.1016/S0272-7358(99)00073-2|pmid=11413868|issn=0272-7358}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last=PhD|first=Paul F. Dell|date=2006-06-05|title=The Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID): A Comprehensive Measure of Pathological Dissociation|url=https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1300/J229v07n02_06|journal=Journal of Trauma & Dissociation|volume=7|issue=2|pages=77–106|doi=10.1300/J229v07n02_06|issn=1529-9732|pmid=16769667|s2cid=16510383}}</ref> It can describe many things. The mildest form of it involves things such as [[daydream]]ing. A less mild form of it involves [[Altered state of consciousness|altered states of consciousness]]. This is non-[[Pathology|patholog