the Dissociative Experiences Scale (Bernstein and Putnam, 1986) to 90 subjects (30 in each sample): depressive patients, alcoholic patients and normal controls. Three types of dissociative experiences were examined: amnesia, despersonaIisations/desrealization and absorption. The highest levels were found in the depressive and alcoholic patients (scores -28.41 and 27.11) compared with normal controls (score -4.12). In the alcoholic sample there is a predomination of absorption experiences (35.22). On the other hand, in depressive patients despersonalization/desrealization is the main typeof dissociative experiences. Data will be analyzed taking into account phenomenological aspects of affective pathology.