Introduction Psychosis and dissociative disorders are both described in the DSM-5 as different diagnostic categories. However, a high comorbidity of these diagnoses has been observed studies, perhaps due to overlapping symptoms between them. Objectives A systematic review about psychotic spectrum Methods Presentation case patient existing literature on differential diagnosis disorder other diso...

In their article, Pyszora et al. present the results of research in which they re-examined 50 violent offenders from an original case study. In the earlier study, they evaluated 59 amnesic violent offenders who received a life sentence in 1994 in England and Wales and compared them against a group of nonamnesic offenders (n 148). In the current follow-up study, the authors reinterviewed 31 of t...

Introduction. Dissociative disorders cause significant diagnostic problems. Prolonged dysfunction of this type, particularly paresis and dysesthesia, may be related to unresolved personality disorders. The most frequent forms of psychogenic disorders are limb paresis, headaches, backaches and psychogenic nonepileptic seizures (PNES). The objective of our study was to compare the personality pro...

The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES-II) remains the most widely used brief screening tool for identifying dissociative symptoms despite limitations of instrument and training those who use it. Standard eye movement desensitization reprocessing (EMDR) therapy procedures require a thorough clinical assessment formally presence disorder. This aids development an accurate case conceptualization...

Dalenberg et al. (2012) argued that convincing evidence (a) supports the longstanding trauma model (TM), which posits that early trauma plays a key role in the genesis of dissociation; and (b) refutes the fantasy model (FM), which posits that fantasy proneness, suggestibility, cognitive failures, and other variables foster dissociation. We review evidence bearing on Dalenberg et al.'s 8 predict...

OBJECTIVE The present study aimed to clarify dissociative symptoms in patients with schizophrenia and its association with negative and positive symptom of schizophrenia. METHODS Based on the 4(th) edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM-IV) criteria, 80 schizophrenic subjects were randomly selected from patients who referred to the clinics of psychiatry hospital...

BACKGROUND Childhood maltreatment (CM) is a risk factor for subsequent intimate partner violence (IPV) in adulthood, with high rates of retrospectively reported CM among IPV victims and perpetrators. A theorized mechanism of the link between CM and IPV is dissociation. Dissociation may allow perpetrators of violence to remain emotionally distant from their behavior and minimize empathy toward t...