...Leonhard Kratzer; Stefan Tschöke; Johanna Schröder; Mark Shevlin; Philip Hyland; Christine Eckenberger; Peter Heinz; Thanos Karatzias Introduction: The fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-5) contains a dissociative subtype of post-traumatic stress...

...Benedetto Farina; Claudio Imperatori Background: Despite its high prevalence in all psychiatric disorders and its widely demonstrated clinical relevance as a marker of both clinical severity and poorer treatment response, a scientifically validated definition of dissociation remains controversial...

...Valerio Ricci; Giuseppe Maina; Giovanni Martinotti The term “dissociation” encompasses a wide array of symptoms and phenomena, all sharing the common characteristic of involving altered states of consciousness where an individual temporarily loses the sense of continuity of their own identity...

... of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms, dissociative experiences, adult attachment insecurity, and mentalizing. Results: Structural equation modelling results revealed that attachment insecurity together with lower mentalizing mediated the link between childhood trauma and PTSD symptoms, and lower...

..., instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Denial of pregnancy Neonaticide attempt Postpartum period Depression Dissociation Pregnancy, childbirth, and motherhood are considered as natural experiences, and societal norms expect a positive reaction from a woman...

... highly repetitive belief expression that fails to respond to pharmacological and psychological treatments. Key aspects of this phenomenon are similar to those observed in dissociative (functional neurological) presentations. Drawing on the Integrative Cognitive Model of functional neurological disorders...

...Jan Terock; Sandra Van der Auwera; Deborah Janowitz; Carsten Spitzer; Sven Barnow; Martin Miertsch; Harald J. Freyberger; Hans-Jörgen Grabe Background: The mechanism of how childhood trauma leads to increased risk for adult dissociation is not sufficiently understood. We sought to investigate...

... by interpersonal and sociocultural experience. Important insights have been generated regarding emotional and social-cognitive dysregulation, disorder of self-awareness, relationality, identity, and coherence and continuity of the self. Many of these are shared by various trauma-related, dissociative disorders...

...Melanie Marysko; Corinna Reck; Volker Mattheis; Patricia Finke; Franz Resch; Eva Moehler Background: Dissociation has been recognized as a relevant factor within the context of traumatization. Since childhood maltreatment as well as child birth can be regarded as a potential trauma, this study...

...Vedat Sar; Okan Taycan; Nurullah Bolat; Mine Özmen; Alaattin Duran; Erdinç Öztürk; Hayriye Ertem-Vehid Background: This study is concerned with relationships between childhood trauma history, dissociative experiences, and the clinical phenomenology of chronic schizophrenia. Sampling and Methods...

...Christian Stiglmayr; Christian Schmahl; J. Douglas Bremner; Martin Bohus; Ulrich Ebner-Priemer Background/Aims: Until now, no brief self-report instrument for the assessment of dissociative states comprising somatoform and psychological items has been available. Thus, we developed a brief...

...Matthias Vogel; Carsten Spitzer; Philipp Kuwert; Bertram Möller; Harald J. Freyberger; Hans Jörgen Grabe Background: Dissociation is often related to previous trauma and also occurs frequently in schizophrenia. Dissociation and psychosis may reflect a posttraumatic syndrome in some patients...

...Romuald Brunner; Carsten Müller; Peter Parzer; Franz Resch Background: Thus far, possible neurobiological underpinnings of dissociative symptomatology have not been studied sufficiently. We studied the reactivity of the autonomous nervous system to a non-specific laboratory stressor in a clinical...

...Matthias Vogel; Carsten Spitzer; Sven Barnow; Harald J. Freyberger; Hans Jörgen Grabe Background: To investigate the relationship between dissociative experiences, psychopathological distress, a history of trauma and posttraumatic symptoms in adult schizophrenia. Methods: Eighty-seven schizophrenic...

.... Methods: The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV was used to assess the presence of PTSD and major depression. The Dissociative Experiences Scale and the 58-item version of the Hopkins Symptom Checklist were also administered. Partial PTSD was defined as the presence of at least one symptom in each...

.... Neojacksonism Dissociation Organodynamic theory Attachment theory Integration Original Paper Psychopathology 2005;38:285 290 DOI: 10.1159/000088447 Received: May 26, 2004 Accepted after revision: November 9, 2004 Published online: September 20, 2005 Henri Ey s Neojacksonism and the Psychopathology...

...Jon Jureidini Background: Dissociation is often conceptualised as an altered state of consciousness, a trance-like state in which normal barriers between conscious and unconscious memories, desires and beliefs break down and other amnestic barriers emerge. This review explores whether it is likely...

... the modalities of magical ideation in general. Sampling and Methods: A German version of the Magical Ideation Scale was validated with a group of 69 healthy subjects. Ninety-four MS patients were additionally assessed with the Dissociative Experience Scale, the Symptom-Check-List-90-Revised and 5...

...Carsten Spitzer; Thomas Klauer; Hans-Joergen Grabe; Michael Lucht; Rolf-Dieter Stieglitz; Wolfgang Schneider; Harald J. Freyberger Considering that epidemiological research on dissociative disorders has suggested a 9 to 1 predominance of female cases, this study investigated the relationship...