Many people having near death experiences report "steeping out of their body and looking at it from the outside." This experience can best be classified as:
A) a dissociative fugue state.
B) depersonalization.
C) schizotypal behavior.
D) dissociative identity disorder.

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The experience of "stepping out of the body and looking at it from the outside" is a common symptom of depersonalization, which is a dissociative disorder characterized by a feeling of detachment from oneself or one's surroundings. It is not characteristic of fugue states, schizotypal behavior, or dissociative identity disorder.

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