Controversy about dissociation and the dissociative disorders (DD) has existed since the
beginning of modern psychiatry and psychology. Even among professionals, beliefs about …

Background Interpersonal trauma exposure and trauma-related disorders in people with
severe mental illness (SMI) are often not recognized in clinical practice. Objective To …

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Objective: Despite its long and auspicious place in the history of psychiatry, dissociative
identity disorder (DID) has been associated with controversy. This paper aims to examine …

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a complex, posttraumatic, developmental disorder for
which we now, after four decades of research, have an authoritative research base, but a …

Objective: The purpose of the study was to assess the prevalence of DSM-IV dissociative
disorders in an inner-city outpatient psychiatric population. Method: Subjects were 231 …

General psychiatric assessment instruments do not cover DSM‐IV dissociative disorders.
Many large‐scale epidemiological studies led to biased results due to this deficit in their …

This study sought to determine the prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in
the general population, as assessed in a representative sample of a city in central Turkey …

In most of the recent scientific and clinical literature, dissociation has been equated with
dissociative amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, and fragmentation of identity …

Severe dissociative disorders (DD) are associated with high levels of impairment, treatment
utilization, and treatment costs, yet relatively little systematic research has focused on …