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Williams, Mary Beth Gindlesperger, Sandi 2005-10-19T17:42:04Z 2005-10-19T17:42:04Z 1996-09 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1753 p. 210-220 259654 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Vol. 9, No. 3, p. 210-220 : Developing and maintaining a psycho-educational group for persons diagnosed as DID/MPD/DDNOS Developing and maintaining a psycho-educational group for persons diagnosed as DID/MPD/DDNOS Article

Draijer, Nel, 1950- 2005-10-20T19:51:10Z 2005-10-20T19:51:10Z 1996-12 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1766 p. 219-220 210322 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 219-220 : Editorial Dissociation in an international perspective: the 1995 Amsterdam papers-I Article

Bowman, Elizabeth S. 2005-10-20T21:18:12Z 2005-10-20T21:18:12Z 1996-12 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1768 p. 232-243 This article reviews data from four areas of memory research which are clinically relevant to understanding the reliability and suggestibility of delayed memories of abuse in dissociative disorder patients. Research supports the suggestibility of eyewitness memory for non-dramatic events, but not for personally experienced trauma. Hypnosis has been found to increase memory suggestibility and confidence in correct and incorrect memories in laboratory studies, while the accuracy of hypnotically recalled memories in psychotherapy have been highly supported by corroboration. High hypnotizability, however, appears more important than hypnosis in producing laboratory pseudomemories. Autobiographical memory research indicates that the reliability of adulthood memories prior to age three is uncertain, but some traumatic memories from age two persist. Accurate behavioral memories of trauma may persist when verbal ones are absent. Interview techniques greatly affect memory suggestibility, with free recall producing the least suggestibility. Therapists can minimize memory distortions by educating patients about memory reliability, using open-ended questions, avoiding hypnotic recall, using active memory source monitoring, and supportively exploring the reliability of emerging memories. 420158 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 232-243 : Delayed memories of child abuse: part II: an overview of research findings relevant to understanding their reliability and suggestibility Delayed memories of child abuse: part II: an overview of research findings relevant to understanding their reliability and suggestibility Article

Zoroglu, Salih Yargic, L. Ilhan Tutkun, Hamdi Ozturk, Mucahit Sar, Vedat 2005-10-21T20:16:41Z 2005-10-21T20:16:41Z 1996-12 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1773 p. 253-260 In this paper, the diagnostic processes, previous diagnoses, clinical symptomatology, life events, traumatic experiences, family histories, and treatment of five children (three girls and two boys between five and eleven years of age) with DID are presented. Clinical findings were headaches, aggressive behavior and outbursts, trance-like experiences, amnesias, inconsistent school performance, lying, sleep disturbances, and depressive symptoms. One of the patients had been treated previously under different diagnoses. The number of alter personalities ranged from two to eleven. One of the patients, a ten-year-old girl, had two distinct personality systems. All of the cases presented at least four Schneiderian first-rank symptoms except an eleven-year-old boy who had only one. All of the cases had amnesia between at least two alters during interviews initially, except for a five-year-old case who did not. A ten-year-old girl was treated successfully and her alter personalities integrated. The others discontinued the therapy. 415035 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 253-260 : Dissociative identity disorder in childhood: five turkish cases Dissociative identity disorder in childhood: five turkish cases Article

Grave, Riccardo Dalle Oliosi, Manuela Todisco, Patrizia Bartocci, Claudia 2005-10-21T20:46:05Z 2005-10-21T20:46:05Z 1996-12 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1782 p. 274-281 This study investigates the relationship between trauma, dissociative experiences, and eating psychopathology in a group of eating disorder patients. The Dissociation Questionnaire (DIS-Q) and a semi-structured interview were used to assess 106 eating disorder patients at the start of an inpatient treatment program. DIS-Q scores were evaluated for the eating disorder patients and compared with the scores of 20 schizophrenic patients and 112 high school graduating students (controls). Of the eating disorder patients, 45.2% reported traumatic experiences. The highest trauma rate was reported by patients with bulimic symptoms. Significant differences were found in the prevalence of traumatic experiences between eating disorder patients and control subjects, but not between eating disorder and schizophrenic patients. The highest total DIS-Q scores were detected in bulimia nervosa and anorexia nervosa binge eating/purging type patients; the lowest DIS-Q scores were found in patients with binge eating disorder, schizophrenia, and controls. Eating disorder patients, in comparison with schizophrenic patients, reported significantly higher scores in identity confusion, loss of control, and absorption. However, the only dissociative features which seems to link trauma, dissociation, and eating disorders are identity confusion and loss of control, since absorption is not sensitive to the presence/absence of trauma. 357709 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 274-281 : Trauma and dissociative experiences in eating disorders Trauma and dissociative experiences in eating disorders Article

Lazrove, Steven Fine, Catherine G., 1950- 2005-10-21T20:28:47Z 2005-10-21T20:28:47Z 1996-12 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1778 p. 289-299 Hyperarousal during trauma inhibits the integration of memory. In DID, memory is further disrupted when alter personalities coalesce around individual memory fragments and either reenact conflicts or disown them. Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) is an innovative psychotherapeutic method which accelerates information processing and facilitates the integration of fragmented traumatic memories. Following a successful EMDR session, patients report that the nature of the traumatic memory has changed and that the event is now less upsetting and “feels over.” A strategy for using EMDR to integrate traumatic memories in patients with dissociative identity disorder (DID) is presented and technical considerations for its implementation are discussed. To the extent that alter personalities often are based on memory fragments, integration of traumatic memory facilitates personality integration. EMDR may be a superior method for working with traumatic memories in that it appears to enhance memory integration and reformulate cognitions concomitantly. 411555 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Vol. 9, No. 4, p. 289-299 : The use of EMDR in patients with dissociative identity disorder The use of EMDR in patients with dissociative identity disorder Article

Kluft, Richard P., 1943- 2005-10-30T20:46:40Z 2005-10-30T20:46:40Z 1997-03 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1793 p. 001-002 196699 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Volume 10, No. 1, p. 001-002 : Editorial The importance of foundations Article

Wickramasekera, Ian E. Wickramasekera, Ian Edward, II 2005-10-30T20:55:26Z 2005-10-30T20:55:26Z 1997-03 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1802 p. 011-020 This is a controlled case study of a 22-year-old female with a four year history of episodic nausea, vomiting, tachycardia and social anxiety resistant to medical and psychiatric therapy. Systematic desensitization for social phobia with psychophysiological monitoring (electromyogram, skin temperature, skin conductance level (SCL), and heart rate) was associated with a decline in somatic symptoms, muscle tension (EMG), and subjective distress. At the tenth session, an EMG spike sustained for at least 33 minutes was associated with a forgotten traumatic dream from the previous night. Hypnotic recall of the traumatic dream during therapy was associated with an immediate collapse of the EMG spike and an abrupt increase in subjective distress. The dream contained recall of a repressed memory of a possible sexual exposure to HIV five years previously. This case study may illustrate the utility of psychophysiological monitoring (PPM) in the psychotherapy of somatoform disorders. It may also illustrate the value of electrophysiological and autonomic measures to identify repressed traumatic somatized memories and to demonstrate objectively the distinction between implicit and explicit memory. 972758 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Volume 10, No. 1, p. 011-020 : A case study: electromyographic correlates in the hypnotic recall of a repressed memory A case study: electromyographic correlates in the hypnotic recall of a repressed memory Article

Hansen, Cheri Gold, Steven N. 2005-11-03T22:51:46Z 2005-11-03T22:51:46Z 1997-03 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1832 p. 029-037 This study examines relationships between two MMPI-2 screening instruments for dissociative symptoms, the North Carolina Dissociation Index (NCDI) and Phillips Dissociation Scale (PDS), and the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) in a clinical sample of adult survivors of childhood sexual abuse. The DES and MMPI-2 were completed by 138 women and 22 men. Correlations between the NCDI, PDS, and DES total, factor (amnesia, absorption/imaginative involvement, and derealization/depersonalization), and taxon (DES-T) scores were calculated for men and women . The NCDI and PDS were positively correlated; however, neither correlated with DES among either men or women. The PDS was positively correlated with the DES amnesia factor and DES -T in men ; however, internal consistency of the PDS was quite low for men in our sample (.65). No significant correlations were found between the PDS and DES in women. Results do not support the use of either the PDS or NCDI as a screening instrument for dissociative symptomatology in adults with histories of childhood sexual abuse. 735066 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Volume 10, No. 1, p. 029-037 : Relations between the DES and two MMPI-2 dissociation scales Relations between the DES and two MMPI-2 dissociation scales Article

Cozolino, Louis J. 2005-11-03T22:58:05Z 2005-11-03T22:58:05Z 1997-03 0896-2863 http://hdl.handle.net/1794/1834 p. 044-053 Through the first few years of life the central and peripheral nervous systems grow in an exuberant, non-linear progression through a series of structures, organizations, and reorganizations. Evolving sensory, memory, and appraisal systems result in transitory modes of processing which are incorporated, superseded, and/or inhibited by later developing systems. Because of these complexities, little is understood about the phenomenology of early experience and its impact on adult functioning. The present paper hypothesizes about some aspects of early experience and memory and their possible intrusion into adult awareness, using, as an example, reported alien abduction experiences. These experiences are explained as the reinstatement of primordial memories of early caretaking which are misperceived as occurring in the present and interpreted by later developing, socially influenced cortical mechanisms of language and memory. 1125986 bytes application/pdf en_US Ridgeview Institute and the International Society for the Study of Dissociation Dissociation : Volume 10, No. 1, p. 044-053: The intrusion of early implicit memory into adult consciousness The intrusion of early implicit memory into adult consciousness Article