Dissociation is a widespread phenomenon with profound implications for mental health because dissociative experiences can become maladaptive, and these symptoms are prevalent, disruptive, and costly, both in direct health care expenses and indirect costs (1). Dissociation occurs across various diagnostic categories, and there is growing evidence that dissociation predicts poorer treatment...
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 present...
BACKGROUND Neurobiological findings and clinical data suggest that dissociative experience inhibits conditioning processes, but experimental studies are lacking. The aim of our study was to determine whether high states of dissociative experience would specifically alter emotional learning, but not declarative knowledge. METHODS We used an aversive differential delay conditioning procedure in...