Psychiatrycommon
A 23-year-old law student describes episodes that begin during arguments with her partner. She suddenly feels as though she has floated up to the ceiling and is watching herself argue from above. Her hands do not feel like her own and her voice sounds as though it belongs to someone else. The room and the furniture look entirely normal to her throughout. She knows the experience is not really happening and finds it frightening, and she recalls the whole argument afterwards. Which one of the following terms best describes this experience?