Dedication I would like to dedicate this thesis to my mother Susann and my father Ned, for pushing me to be better and for never giving up on me.

While many studies have demonstrated relationships between trauma and dissociation, relatively little is known about other factors that may increase children's risk for developing dissociative symptoms. Drawing on betrayal trauma theory and Discrete Behavioral States frameworks, the current study examined the contributions of maternal factors (including mothers' dissociation, betrayal trauma ex...

We examined the relationship between dissociative experiences as indexed by the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES; Bernstein & Putnam, 1986) and sleep-related experiences (e.g., nightmares, recurring dreams) as measured by the Iowa Sleep Experience Survey (ISES; Watson, 2001) in an undergraduate sample (N 1⁄4 94). In addition, we studied the link between dissociative experiences and sleeping ...

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...

We report recent developments in the theory of dissociative recombination of the H3 ion. The theory is able to explain the surprisingly large dissociative recombination rate observed in storage-ring experiments. We have found that the high rate is caused by Jahn-Teller coupling between the electronic and vibrational degrees of freedom. We compare two theoretical models: A simplified model and a...

In this article, the author discusses the changes in the new edition of the International Classification of Diseases (ICD-10) related to dissociative and conversion disorders. He comments on theelimination of the concept of hysteria, the introduction of a new group of dissociative (neurotic) disorders and the creation ofa new category oforganic (dissociative) conversion disorders. The author di...

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 ...