The assessment of trauma-related disorders (TRD) and dissociative disorders (DD) is not widely taught. Accurate assessment of dissociative symptoms can be challenging without adequate training. Clinicians who have not been trained in assessing TRD may mistakenly attribute TRD and DD symptoms to psychosis, bipolar disorder, borderline personality disorder, or malingering. As a result, TRD and DD...
The 4-dimensional (4-D) model of trauma-related dissociation differentiates between dissociative experiences involving trauma-related altered states of consciousness and symptoms of distress that do not appear to involve alterations in normal waking consciousness across four phenomenological dimensions (i.e., our experience of time, thought, body, and emotions). The current study evaluated...
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...