Robbie Duschinsky

Parental loss of family members within two years of offspring birth predicts elevated absorption scores in college.

Attachment & human development October 2016 Naomi I Gribneau Bahm, Robbie Duschinsky, Erik Hesse

Liotti proposed that interactions during infancy with a parent suffering unresolved loss could lead to vulnerabilities to altered states of consciousness. Hesse and van IJzendoorn provided initial support for Liotti's hypothesis, finding elevated scores on Tellegen's Absorption Scale - a normative form of dissociation - for undergraduates reporting that their parents had experienced the loss of...