The Dissociative Identity Disorder – Trait Mapper (DID-TM) is a system for use by clinicians and researchers in the treatment and study of dissociative disorders. In these disorders, individuals manifest multiple identities that must be understood and tracked through treatment. The system’s visual representations assist the user in gaining insight into the structures of personalities, patterns ...

Patients with psychogenic non-epileptic seizures (pseudoseizures) have been diagnosed as having conversion disorder or dissociative disorder. Pseudoseizure patients frequently report a history of physical and sexual abuse, and traumatic experience is considered part of the mechanism for producing dissociation. Pseudoseizures may be a manifestation of dissociative disorder, especially when a his...

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is one of the most fascinating disorders in psychiatry. The arduous search to reveal the obscurity of this disorder has led to colossal research in this area over the years. Although drug-assisted interviews are not widely used, they may be beneficial for some patients that do not respond to conventional treatments such as supportive psychotherapy or psychop...

Introduction The DSM-5 defines dissociation as “disruption of and/or discontinuity in the normal integration consciousness, memory, identity, emotion, perception, body representation, motor control, and behavior”. disorders this group include depersonalization/derealization disorder, dissociative amnesia, identity last being a controversial entity. Dissociative are associated with elevated leve...

OBJECTIVE To campare the family functioning, level of depression, anxiety and histrionic personality traits among depressive and dissociative (conversion) patients. STUDY DESIGN A cross-sectional study. PLACE AND DURATION OF STUDY The Psychiatry Unit of Government Lady Reading Hospital, Peshawar, on depressive and dissociative (conversion) patients admitted from January to May 2004. METHO...

Multiple Personality Disorder and the Dissociative Disorders ar e characterized by the suljective experiences of extreme fragmentation, disorganization, and disintegration . While our current system ofclassifications identifies these experiences as central to dissociation, clinician s have been limited in their ability to describe the nature of these state s specifically. Recent findings from d...

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this study was to investigate temperamental, psychodynamic, and cognitive factors associated with dissociation. METHOD Fifty-three subjects with DSM-IV-defined depersonalization disorder and 22 healthy comparison subjects were administered the Dissociative Experiences Scale, the Tridimensional Personality Questionnaire, the Defense Style Questionnaire, and the Schema ...