Medical Definition of Derealization
1. An alteration in one's perception of the environment such that things that are ordinarily familiar seem strange, unreal, or two-dimensional. (05 Mar 2000)
Lexicographical Neighbors of Derealization
Literary usage of Derealization
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Severe Disability: A Text for Rehabilitation Counselors, Other edited by Walter C. Stolov, Michael R. Clowers (2000)
"A majority of users will report occasionally experiencing anxiety symptoms,
strange feelings of detachment from reality (derealization), ..."
2. The New Realism: Coöperative Studies in Philosophy by Edwin Bissell Holt (1912)
"The dualistic form of the doctrine tries, as we have said, to accomplish this
derealization of the psychical by relegating it to the status of an ..."
3. Assessment and Treatment of Patients With Coexisting Mental Illness and by Richard Ries (1996)
"Psychologic symptoms may include depersonalization and derealization and fear of
fainting, dying, doing something uncontrolled, or losing one's mind. ..."
4. Reviews in Environmental Health (1998): Toxicological Defense Mechanics edited by Gary E. R. Hook, George W. Lucier (2000)
"... TD also affects whatever higher-level brain centers subserve amnesia for self
and place and for deper- sonalization and derealization experiences [such ..."
5. Creative Intelligence: Essays in the Pragmatic Attitude by John Dewey, Addison Webster Moore, Harold Chapman Brown, George Herbert Mead, Boyd Henry Bode, Henry Waldgrave Stuart, James Hayden Tufts, Horace Meyer Kallen (1917)
"... here and now, and continuously with the drab workaday life which is her lot,
and she becomes this without any compensatory derealization of that life, ..."
6. Representations of Violence: Art about the Sierra Leone Civil War by Patrick K. Muana, Chris Corcoran, Russell D. Feingold (2005)
"As Elaine Scarry posited, “the utter derealization of verbal meanings” inside
war have this “same unanchored quality” (Scarry i 99 5 : i 3 3 ). ..."
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