Dissociation : Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 196-204 : Disorganized/disoriented attachment in the etiology of the dissociative disorders
| dc.contributor.author | Liotti, Giovanni | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2005-10-18T22:07:05Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2005-10-18T22:07:05Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1992-12 | |
| dc.description | p. 196-204 | en |
| dc.description.abstract | It has been suggested that multiple personality disorder (MPD) may be seen as an attachment disorder, related to the process of detachment (Barach, 1991). To think in terms of disorganized/disoriented (D) attachment seems a better way of conceptualizing not only MPD, but all the dissociative disorders in relation to difficulties experienced in early attachment relationships. This paper reviews recent findings concerning D (disorganized/disoriented) attachment in infants and its correlates in unresolved parental traumas (quite often, losses through death of significant others). It is proposed that D attachment in infancy may lead to increased vulnerability to dissociative disorders via a linking mechanism proposed by Main and Hesse (1990, 1992): parental frightened and/or frightening behavior. Mothers of dissociative patients were reported much more often than mothers of other psychiatric patients to have suffered the loss through death of a significant other in the two years before-two years after the patient's birth. This finding supports the hypothesis that many dissociative patients may have been infants attached in a disorganized/disoriented way to at least one attachment figure. | en |
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| dc.identifier.issn | 0896-2863 | |
| dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1794/1722 | |
| dc.language.iso | en_US | en |
| dc.publisher | Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Multiple Personality and Dissociation | en |
| dc.title | Dissociation : Vol. 5, No. 4, p. 196-204 : Disorganized/disoriented attachment in the etiology of the dissociative disorders | en |
| dc.title.alternative | Disorganized/disoriented attachment in the etiology of the dissociative disorders | en |
| dc.type | Article | en |