Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
August 5, 2026
Sefanur Altun, İ. Çimen
The link between traumatic events, such as sexual abuse, and dissociation is well-documented, but the mechanisms underlying these symptoms remain unclear. The aim of this study was to investigate the relationship between sexually abused individuals' dissociative experiences and emotion dysregulation and mindfulness; and to examine whether mindfulness and emotion dysregulation play a role in the...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
July 10, 2026
Chase H G MacCabe, George Gharibian, J. R. Noblitt et al.
Human trafficking is a worldwide, multibillion dollar industry, profiting from the systematic abuse and exploitation of over 27 million people at present. Sex trafficking, in which one implements force, fraud, or coercion to manipulate another into performing commercial sexual services, constitutes a substantial sector of the industry. Profoundly traumatic, sex trafficking inflicts enduring...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
July 9, 2026
Annegret Krause-Utz, A. van Dijke
Dissociative experiences are highly common in borderline personality disorder (BPD) and have been associated with childhood abuse and neglect. Only few studies so far differentiated between specific forms of psychoform and somatoform dissociation, childhood trauma, and BPD domains. This study aimed to simultaneously investigate how psychoform dissociation (depersonalization derealization,...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
November 21, 2025
John A O'Neil
14 citations
This paper examines the relationship between psychoanalysis and trauma, focusing specifically on dissociation-and, more narrowly, on dissociative multiplicity, the most challenging form for psychoanalysis to address. Dissociative multiplicity involves the presence of more than one center of consciousness, more than one "I," a feature of multiple personality, now called Dissociative Identity...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
August 2, 2025
P. G. Rossini, Francesca Malandrone, Mariagrazia Merola et al.
ABSTRACT This study aimed to validate the Italian version of the Multiscale Dissociation Inventory (MDI-ITA) and to assess its psychometric properties in a non-clinical sample. The MDI was translated and culturally adapted following established guidelines. A total of 439 Italian-speaking adults participated in the study and filled out the MDI-ITA and other assessment tools for dissociation...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
April 7, 2025
Sarah K. Danböck, Yoki L. Mertens, Patricia Kulla et al.
3 citations
Dissociative symptoms constitute a transdiagnostic phenomenon not only characterizing dissociative disorders but also occurring across a broad range of other mental disorders such as posttraumatic stress disorder or borderline personality disorder. In the latter disorders, dissociative symptoms such as depersonalization, derealization, or gaps in awareness significantly burden patients'...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
2025
Ivano Caselli, Marta Ielmini, Giulia Gastaldello et al.
2 citations
Pathological dissociation is characterized by disruptions in consciousness, memory, identity, perception, and affect, often linked to trauma and observed across various psychiatric conditions. Previous reviews do not fully cover key biological correlates used as biomarkers and do not clearly define the trauma-dissociation link. Therefore, this systematic review gives an overview of the studies...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
September 27, 2024
Philipp Wülfing, Carsten Spitzer
The transdiagnostic construct of dissociation, characterized by a disintegration of specific psychological functions such as consciousness, memory, identity, perception, body representation, and behavior, remains elusive to a unified conceptualization. Specifically, its dimensionality is a matter of ongoing controversy. Empirical approaches applying factor analyses to the Dissociative...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
September 24, 2024
A. Vancappel, Claudie Chavigny, Lyna Chami et al.
ABSTRACT Dissociation is a widespread difficulty among patients suffering from Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD). However, there is no gold standard treatment for dissociative symptoms. Recent studies propose a cognitive and behavioral conceptualization for dissociation. The aim of this study was to explore the efficacy of a group program of Dissociation-Focused Cognitive Behavior Therapy...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
December 20, 2023
H. Fung, M. Wong, Andrew Moskowitz et al.
ABSTRACT The association and overlap between psychotic and dissociative phenomena have been increasingly recognized. Previous studies found that psychotic symptoms are closely associated with post-traumatic and dissociative symptoms and that these trauma-related phenomena may mediate the relationship between trauma and psychotic symptoms. It remained less explored which specific post-traumatic...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
July 4, 2023
A. Vancappel, C. Hingray, C. Réveillère et al.
ABSTRACT Introduction A number of studies have investigated the relationship between mindfulness and dissociation and suggested that mindfulness-based interventions could be effective in the treatment of dissociative symptoms. A recent study in healthy volunteers found that attention and emotional acceptance mediates this relationship. However, no study has yet been performed among a clinical...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
April 3, 2023
Giovanni Caputo
7 citations
Anomalous strange-face illusions (SFIs) are produced when mirror gazing under a low level of face illumination. In contrast to past studies in which an observer's task was to pay attention to the reflected face and to perceive potential facial changes, the present research used a mirror gazing task (MGT) that instructed participants to fixate their gaze on a 4-mm hole in a glass mirror. The...
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...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
April 15, 2022
D. Simeon, Frank W. Putnam
ABSTRACT Our aim was to examine U.S. national prevalence of pathological dissociation (PD) likely indicative of dissociative disorder, and associated morbidity, comorbidity, and childhood maltreatment. PD was assessed in 6,644 participants in the National Comorbidity Survey Replication, a nationally representative adult survey. Seven of the eight pathological dissociation taxon items were...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
2022
Paul Frewen, Bethany L. Brand, Hugo J. Schielke et al.
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...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
June 2, 2021
Fabio D’Antoni, Susanna Feruglio, Alessio Matiz et al.
ABSTRACT Dissociation is an involuntary defensive mechanism to protect oneself by avoiding unbearable internal conflicts or overwhelming emotions. Cultivating mindful awareness could allow the development of voluntary processes that can offer part of the self-protective function of dissociation while favoring internal integration processes. The aim of the present study was to explore the...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
September 17, 2020
Everton de Oliveira Maraldi, A. Costa, Alexandre Cunha et al.
13 citations
We read with great interest the editorial by Krüger (2020) in which she provides a review of some of the cultural aspects of dissociation and trauma. We especially appreciate her call for the study of the “entire spectrum of dissociation” (p. 1) from normal to pathological. We have been working along similar lines (e.g., Maraldi et al., 2017; Maraldi et al., 2019) and would like to take the...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
March 1, 2020
Annette Löffler, Nikolaus Kleindienst, S. Cackowski et al.
ABSTRACT Body ownership, i.e., the certainty that own body parts belongs to oneself, is a fundamental feature of self-consciousness. Patients with borderline personality disorder (BPD) often show symptoms of dissociation, describing a state of detachment from reality including their own body. However, up to now, there is no study that a) quantifies body ownership experiences in BPD, b) compares...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
January 30, 2020
Ravi Shah, Christina M Temes, Frances R Frankenburg et al.
Borderline personality disorder (BPD) is a serious psychiatric illness, and it is often associated with dissociative symptoms. The purpose of this study was to assess the course of depersonalization and derealization symptoms in recovered and non-recovered borderline patients over 20 years of prospective follow-up. The Dysphoric Affect Scale (DAS) - a 50-item self-report measure was...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
November 1, 2019
Y. Mertens, J. Daniels
ABSTRACT The Clinician-Administered Dissociative States Scale (CADSS) is a structured clinical interview to assess state dissociation rated by clinicians. The current study aimed to validate the German version of CADSS by comparing it to the established self-report measures for dissociation and exploring its underlying factor structure. Severity of within-session state dissociation was assessed...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
April 2, 2019
Giovanni Caputo
Experimentally induced strange-face illusions can be perceived when two individuals look at each other in the eyes under low illumination for about 10 minutes. This task of subject-other eye-to-eye gazing produces the following perceptions by the subject: (i) mild to huge deformations and color/shape changes of face and facial features; (ii) lifeless, unmoving faces and immaterial presences...
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...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
October 20, 2018
A set of measures of trauma, dissociation, altered states of consciousness, and spiritual experiences was administered to a convenience sample of 100 inpatients in a hospital Trauma Program. The inpatients had an average Dissociative Experiences Scale score of 42.3 and an average Adverse Childhood Experiences Scale score of 6.6, both of which are very high. Both trauma and dissociation...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
August 10, 2018
C. Forner
ABSTRACT Mindfulness based psychotherapeutic interventions have shown to be an effective intervention for quite some time now. These intervention, however, have not been that successful with individuals who experience dissociative disorders. There is a very clear disconnect between these two fields. In an attempt to close the gap, reviewing what mindfulness might be from an attachment and human...
Journal of Trauma & Dissociation
July 30, 2018
S. Vencio, R. Caiado-Vencio, L. Caixeta
ABSTRACT Background. It is important to understand the most diverse cultural aspects related to religiosity. Scientifically, it is important to understand religious manifestations and their relation to health, and to differentiate them from psychopathological manifestations. Objective. To evaluate the mental health of a group of mediums and compare it with that of a control group from the same...