Frontiers in Psychiatry
April 1, 2025
Asli Ercan Dogan, Herdem Aslan Genç, S. Balaç et al.
Introduction Depression is a heterogeneous disorder with diverse clinical presentations and etiological underpinnings, necessitating the identification of distinct subtypes to enhance targeted interventions. Dissociative symptoms, commonly observed in major depressive disorder (MDD) and linked to early life trauma, may represent a unique clinical dimension associated with specific...
The British Journal of Psychiatry
March 17, 2025
Nirit Soffer-Dudek, Eli Somer, David Spiegel et al.
Maladaptive daydreaming is a distinct syndrome in which the main symptom is excessive vivid fantasising that causes clinically significant distress and functional impairment in academic, vocational and social domains. Unlike normal daydreaming, maladaptive daydreaming is persistent, compulsive and detrimental to one’s life. It involves detachment from reality in favour of intense emotional...
Alpha psychiatry
May 1, 2022
Vedat Şar
The clinical heterogeneity of dissociation constitutes a challenge to the culture-sensitive clinician. Variability in experiencing dissociation, the interplay between acute and chronic conditions, and the predominance of a nosologically interface-type of clinical surface conceal core dissociative symptoms. While the latter (amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, identity confusion, and...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
February 4, 2019
A. Schimmenti, Vedat Şar
ABSTRACT The interrelationships between the symptom domains of dissociation, such as the loss of continuity in subjective experience, the inability to access personal information, and the distortions about the perception of self and the environment, need to be better understood. In the current study, 2274 adults from Italy completed the Dissociative Experiences Scale-II (DES-II), and their...
Frontiers in Psychology
February 17, 2017
Vedat Şar
The nature of consciousness and the autonomy of the individual's mind have been a focus of interest throughout the past century and inspired many theories and models. Revival of studies on psychological trauma and dissociation, which remained outside mainstream psychiatry, psychology, and psychoanalysis for the most part of the past century, has provided a new opportunity to revisit this...
Australian & New Zealand Journal of Psychiatry
May 1, 2014
Martin J Dorahy, Bethany L. Brand, Vedat Şar et al.
222 citations
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 the empirical data related to DID and outline the contextual challenges to its scientific investigation. METHODS: The overview is limited to DID-specific research in which one or more of the following conditions are...
Depression and Anxiety
September 1, 2011
David Spiegel, R. Loewenstein, Roberto Lewis-Fernández et al.
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,...
Vedat Şar, Erdinc Ozturk
preprint
A novel sociocognitive theory of dissociation and dissociative disorders is proposed. The model, which is both theoretical and clinical, is based on "functional dissociation of the self." A new concept is introduced in this paper: the sociological self. While the sociological self may have cultural and societal dimensions, it is regarded here as a universal phenomenon rather than a...