Putnam (1) describes dissociation as a complex psychopathological process that occurs on a continuum ranging from minor normative dissociations to psychiatric conditions. The descriptive DSM approach identifies the essential feature of the dissociative disorders as ‘disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment’ (2). Adolesce...

BACKGROUND The interplay between different types of potentially traumatizing events, posttraumatic symptoms, and the pathogenesis of PTSD or major dissociative disorders (DD) has been extensively studied during the last decade. However, the phenomenology and nosological classification of posttraumatic disorders is currently under debate. The current study was conducted to investigate difference...

BACKGROUND Dissociation likely plays a key role in schizophrenia and borderline personality disorder (BPD), although empirical studies that compare specific manifestations of these symptoms in schizophrenia and BPD are rare. In this context, the purpose of this study was to compare the occurrence of dissociative and other psychopathological symptoms in these disorders, and to assess the possibl...

OBJECTIVE To demonstrate the epidemiological importance of the different types of non-epileptic events (NEE) in a low-income urban community. METHOD The patients suspected of having epilepsy, who were detected in the first phase (screening one) of this prevalence study, were interviewed by a neurologist in a non-structured neurological interview. These NEE were classified as physiological and...

PURPOSE The aim of this study is to describe similarities and differences in epidemiological, psychiatric and semiologic variables between patients with psychogenic none epileptic seizures (PNES) and comorbid epilepsy (mixed PNES), and patients with PNES without comorbid epilepsy (pure PNES). RESULTS Forty-three patients with PNES diagnosed by Video-EEG were included. Twenty-four had pure PNE...

This study explored distinctions between spontaneous and deliberate dissociative states in 335 military personnel exposed to stressful survival training. Participants completed the Clinician-Administered Dissociative States Scale (CADSS) after a stressful mock-captivity event. They were also asked to indicate whether the dissociative experiences just happened (i.e., spontaneous), or whether the...

BACKGROUND Early traumatic experiences are thought to be causal factors in the development of trauma-related dissociative experiences, including depersonalization and derealization. The rubber hand illusion (RHI), a well-known paradigm that measures multi-sensorial integration of a rubber hand into one's own body representation, has been used to investigate alterations in the experience of body...

A brief review of the cross-cultural literature on dissociative and somatoform disorders with emphasis on US Hispanic populations has been provided. A brief description of the psychopathology of somatizing syndromes has been given as have some critiques of current nosologic systems. Cultural influences that may color the expression of somatic manifestations have been outlined. Although it is of...

There are no prevalence or co-morbidity studies on eating disorders in India. This retrospective chart review studied the prevalence and psychiatric co-morbidity among juveniles with eating disorders. Forty-one cases with ICD 10 diagnosis of eating disorders were identified and analyzed. The prevalence of eating disorders was 1.25% Psychogenic vomiting was the commonest eating disorders and ano...