OBJECTIVE To examine family risk factors associated with dissociative symptoms among homeless and runaway youth. METHOD Three hundred and twenty-eight homeless and runaway youth were interviewed using a systematic sampling strategy in metropolitan Seattle. Homeless young people were interviewed on the streets and in shelters by outreach workers in youth service agencies. RESULTS The current...

Although dissociation is often described as a posttraumatic response, the actual statistical association between trauma exposure and dissociative symptoms is surprisingly small. This suggests that that some dissociative phenomena may be unrelated to trauma, or may be related in more complex ways. Analysis of the normative data for the Multiscale Dissociation Inventory revealed significant disso...

We examined to what extent dissociative phenomena in concentration camp survivors are related to post-traumatic stress symptoms. Self-reports of amnesia for traumatic war events and other dissociative experiences were studied in a sample of 31 Dutch survivors of World War II (WWII) Japanese concentration camps. Seventeen survivors treated for war-related psychiatric symptoms were compared to 14...

Individual differences in dissociative style (which is generally considered a risk factor for dissociative pathology) were studied in a nonclinical sample. It was hypothesized that high-dissociative participants would show enhanced attentional abilities toward both relevant and irrelevant stimulus features. In the experiment, threatening and affectively neutral words were classified on their af...

BACKGROUND In the majority of cases short-term treatment outcome of juvenile dissociative disorder is rather favourable. In contrast, the long-term course seems to be less positive, but meaningful results are still fragmentary. The aim of this follow-up study is to bridge this gap to some extent describing the long-term outcome of juvenile dissociative disorder in a clinical sample. To our know...

An editorial introduction to a special issue on hypnosis and psychopathology discusses several links between the two fields. Historically, observation of the parallels between hypnosis and hysteria played an important role in the discovery of unconscious mental processes, the development of psychogenic theories of psychopathology, and the rise of psychotherapy. It is proposed that hypnotic anes...

A 3-parameter local hot spot model of gas-surface reactivity is employed to analyze and predict dissociative sticking coefficients for CH(4) incident on Ir(111) under varied nonequilibrium and equilibrium conditions. One Ir surface oscillator and the molecular vibrations, rotations, and translational energy directed along the surface normal are treated as active degrees of freedom in the 14 dim...

Early diaries of two 29-year-old Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) female patients, who were amnestic to childhood incest memories until the current treatment, were content-analyzed and compared with adolescent diaries of three women who had no known history of psychopathology or child abuse and with one adolescent diary written by a woman in treatment for a chronic AdjustmentDisorder. Diari...

BACKGROUND The prevalence of dissociative seizures is between 2 and 33 sufferers per 100,000 persons. 70% of sufferers are women. Dissociative seizures markedly impair quality of life. Their close superficial resemblance to epileptic seizures makes them hard to diagnose. METHODS Selective literature search in PubMed and PsycINFO. RESULTS Persons with dissociative seizures constitute a mixed...