The massive traumatization of World War I combat soldiers led to an unprecedented incidence of somatoform dissociative disorders and symptoms, usually diagnosed as hysterical disorders during the war years. Following a brief overview of the scope of the suffering during this Great War, attention is given to British army psychiatrist Charles S. Myers’ (1940) observations of the alternation betwe...

OBJECTIVE Inconsistent findings have been reported concerning the level of dissociative symptoms and their relationship with childhood trauma in alcohol-dependent patients. The present study aimed to further examine the level of dissociation and the trauma-dissociation relationship in a sample of alcohol-dependent patients, taking potential mediating factors into account. METHOD A sample of 1...

OBJECTIVE This study of bulimic women examined the relationship between the severity of four forms of reported child abuse (emotional abuse, neglect, physical abuse, sexual abuse) and bulimic pathology. ln addition, it investigated the relationship of abuse with dissociation and core beliefs. METHOD A sample of 23 women with bulimic disorders completed standardized self-report measures of chi...

Many researchers and psychological professionals believe that there is a link between eating disorders and self-harm, though this has been less widely researched than other correlations such as that between eating disorders and substance abuse. Various studies have also indicated a relationship between these two variables and dissociation independently; however, there does not seem to be a comp...

Over the past decade, considerable research has linked traumatic experiences, including childhood trauma, to the development of psychotic symptoms. More recently, the concept of dissociation has been connected to psychosis, particularly auditory hallucinations, as well as to the historical conception of schizophrenia. In this workshop, Professor Andrew Moskowitz, the lead editor of ‘‘Psychosis,...

Abstract Background Although numerous studies have supported the role of childhood maltreatment in etiology psychosis, underlying mechanisms not been well understood yet. The present study aimed to investigate mediating particular forms dissociation relationship between five major types abuse and psychotic symptoms among patients with schizophrenia spectrum other disorders. Methods In this cros...

INTRODUCTION The symptoms of dissociation, depersonalization and derealization are often associated with exposure of patients to mental and physical injuries, usually occurring in childhood. Most of these observations were carried out in populations of patients with various disorders (posttraumatic, conversion-dissociation, personality disorders - especially borderline), who reported their expo...

The article analyzes the features of psychological defenses parents children with autistic disorders. Autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are genetic in nature and a congenital disorder brain neuron development. First all, problems related to autism concern family members affected by this disease. For most part, an child falls into situation isolation, which is accompanied feeling loneliness. model...

This article describes the development and validation of the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation (MID). The MID is a 218-item, self-administered, multiscale instrument that comprehensively assesses the phenomenological domain of pathological dissociation and diagnoses the dissociative disorders. The MID measures 14 major facets of pathological dissociation; it has 23 dissociation diagnos...