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...
Journal of Clinical Psychology
September 1, 2023
Martin J Dorahy, Amy Nesbit, Rachael Palmer et al.
13 citations
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) and schizophrenia-spectrum disorders (SSD) share some overlapping phenomenological features making accurate diagnosis more difficult. Childhood abuse and depersonalization have been associated with psychotic symptoms across psychological disorders but their relationship to psychotic phenomenology remains understudied. The present study used quantitative...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
April 17, 2022
Amy Nesbit, Martin J Dorahy, R. Palmer et al.
ABSTRACT Previous research has shown that the relationship between childhood abuse and the presence of auditory hallucinations is mediated by dissociation, specifically depersonalization and absorption. The current study assessed dissociation as a mediator of the relationship between childhood abuse and auditory hallucination frequency, characteristics and associated distress in those with...
Frontiers in Psychology
2021
Martin J Dorahy, Rafaële J C Huntjens, Rosemary J Marsh et al.
7 citations
Dissociative experiences have been associated with diachronic disunity. Yet, this work is in its infancy. Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is characterized by different identity states reporting their own relatively continuous sense of self. The degree to which patients in dissociative identity states experience diachronic unity (i.e., sense of self over time) has not been empirically...
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...