Dissociative symptom complexes in mental disorders

Personality dimensions identified in ICD-11 actually represent a nonpsychotic level of those dimensions that are designated as psychotic in the case of development of severe, chronic mental and behavioral disorders with persistent and more severe symptoms. This understanding opens up the prospect of talking about an extended representation of each dimension as a phe-nomenon characterized by a continuum of severity from a nonpsychotic to a psychotic level. It is proposed to include its disso-ciative type in the list of dimensions. Guided by the principle of a five-level representation of all dimensions in the range from 0 to 4, we propose a glossary containing specific principles for ranking the dissociative dimension. This diagnostic approach will allow differentiating more accurately the mental states of patients across degrees of severity of the disease and its holistic clinical presentations.