Some aspects of depersonalization occurring in a student population have been studied. 2. The descriptions students gave of depersonalization were strikingly similar to those encountered clinically. 3. The form of depersonalization occurring in the hypnagogic state was found to differ slightly from that occurring while fully awake. 4. Depersonalization in students was found to resemble that seen in psychiatric practice in being more common in women than in men, and in being associated with (symbol in brackets indicates sex in which association attained p< 0.05): deja vu (♂), agoraphobia (♀), neuroticism (♂) and recent disturbances in emotional health (♀). 5. Of the students interviewed, 11.4 per cent had mild agoraphobia. In students with depersonalization, agoraphobia was more common in women than in men (p<0.05). 6. Some aspect of the relationship between agoraphobia, deja vu and depersonalization are discussed.
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Myers et al. (1972) studied this question.