ABSTRACT Our aim was to examine U.S. national prevalence of pathological dissociation (PD) likely indicative of dissociative disorder, and associated morbidity, comorbidity, and childhood maltreatment. PD was assessed in 6,644 participants in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally representative adult survey. Seven of the eight pathological dissociation taxon items were...
Background: We present recommendations for revision of the diagnostic criteria for the Dissociative Disorders (DDs) for DSM‐5. The periodic revision of the DSM provides an opportunity to revisit the assumptions underlying specific diagnoses and the empirical support, or lack of it, for the defining diagnostic criteria. Methods: This paper reviews clinical, phenomenological, epidemiological,...