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Separation into different parts, or preventing their integration, or
detaching one or more parts from the rest. A fear of fragmentation of the
personality, also known as disintegration anxiety, is often observed in patients
whenever they are exposed to repetitions of earlier experiences that interfered
with development of the self. This fear may be expressed as feelings of
falling apart, as a loss of identity, or as a fear of impending loss of one's
vitality and of psychological depletion.
Source: Edgerton, Jane E. 1994. American Psychiatric Glossary, 7th Edition. Washington, DC: American Psychiatric Press
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