Prior research suggests that dissociation and anger are risk factors for the development of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Research found that trauma survivors with higher levels of anger also report more severe PTSD overall. Studies also support a relationship between PTSD severity and dissociation. Only one prior study of sexual assault survivors by Feeny, Zoellner, and Foa (2000) exam...

BACKGROUND A "4-D model" was recently described as a theoretical framework for categorizing trauma-related symptoms into four phenomenological dimensions (the experience of time, thought, body, and emotion) that can present either in the form of normal waking consciousness (NWC) or as dissociative experiences, that is, trauma-related altered states of consciousness (TRASC). METHODS The presen...

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We analyze the response of molecular adhesion complexes to increasing pulling forces (dynamic force spectroscopy) when dissociation can occur along either one of two alternative trajectories in the underlying multidimensional energy landscape. A great diversity of behaviors (e.g., nonmonotonicity) is found for the unbinding force and time as a function of the rate at which the pulling force is ...

Fragmentation of molecules under collision-induced dissociation (CID) conditions is not well-understood. This may make interpretation of MSMS spectra difficult and limit the effectiveness of software tools intended to aid mass spectral interpretation. Density Functional Theory (DFT) has been successfully applied to explain the thermodynamics of fragmentation in the gas phase by the modelling th...

BACKGROUND We conducted a 1-year follow-up of an original mail survey of early reactions to the World Trade Center disaster. METHOD Of the 75 subjects originally surveyed, 58 (77%) responded. The survey included measures of dissociation (Dissociative Experiences Scale, Cambridge Depersonalization Scale, Clinician-Administered Dissociative States Scale), post-traumatic stress (Impact of Event ...

Judith Herman (1992) famously observed, “The knowledge of horrible events periodically intrudes into public awareness but is rarely retained for long. Denial, repression, and dissociation operate on a social as well as an individual level” (p. 2). The truth of Herman’s observation makes editing the Journal of Trauma & Dissociation (JTD) all that more sweet–for in creating this journal we are ta...

The contribution of psychological and psychiatric symptoms in the development Functional Neurological Disorders (FND) is unclear. We therefore aimed to investigate role different attachment styles (AS) their relationship with FND patients as compared both subjects neurological disorders (ND) healthy controls (HC); possible differences between functional movement (FMD) seizures.In this case-cont...

BACKGROUND Bipolar disorders are often associated with cognitive deficits, which have an influence on social functioning and the course of the illness. These deficits have an impact on occupational ability and social integration. SUBJECTS AND METHODS To ascertain cognitive function, level of dissociation and quality of life and their interrelations in patients with bipolar affective disorder ...