Dissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3 (Sept. 1991)https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/12172024-03-28T23:08:37Z2024-03-28T23:08:37ZDissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 165-177 : The inner self helper and concepts of inner guidance: historical antecedents, its role within dissociation, and clinical utilizationComstock, Christine M.https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/14542015-06-18T00:55:51Z1991-09-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 165-177 : The inner self helper and concepts of inner guidance: historical antecedents, its role within dissociation, and clinical utilization
Comstock, Christine M.
The Inner Self Helper (ISH), a specialized psychic structure said to be unique to Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and/or Dissociative Disorder (DD) patients, has its roots deep within traditional psychiatric and psychological heritage. This article examines some of the historical antecedents of the use of a source of inner guidance within the patient, a source that has been called the unconscious mind, the observing ego, and the higher self in addition to the ISH. This paper explores the ISH as it has been conceptualized in the past and as it presently is understood. Some clinical applications for the use of the ISH structure are also presented.
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1991-09-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 152-164 : Children coping with trauma: diagnosis of "Dissociation Identity Disorder"Peterson, Garyhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/14532015-06-17T19:51:00Z1991-09-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 152-164 : Children coping with trauma: diagnosis of "Dissociation Identity Disorder"
Peterson, Gary
Dissociation is a common phenomenon in children. Under conditions of extreme stress, dissociation may be used to wall off traumatic memories. In extreme cases, the use of dissociation may result in the development of multiple personality disorder (MPD). In this paper, the literature of child MPD cases is summarized. Issues addressed include: developmental aspects of dissociation, child abuse leading to dissociation and multiple personality disorder, gender specific response to trauma, epidemiology, familial factors, checklists for childhood dissociation, and diagnostic criteria for a proposed diagnostic category called "Dissociation Identity Disorder " for the diagnosis of evolving children and adolescent MPD.
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1991-09-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 147-151 : High and low dissociators in a college student populationRoss, Colin A.Ryan, LynneVoigt, HarrisonEide, Lylehttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/14522015-06-17T19:49:05Z1991-09-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 147-151 : High and low dissociators in a college student population
Ross, Colin A.; Ryan, Lynne; Voigt, Harrison; Eide, Lyle
From a sample of 345 college students completing the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), the authors interviewed twenty-two students scoring below 5.0, and twenty students scoring above 22.6
with the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule, and also administered the SCL-9O and Millon Clinical Multiaxial Inventory to them. High and low scorers on the DES were clearly differentiated on all three measures. Seventy per cent of the high DES scores had a DSM-III-R dissociative disorder, while none of the low scorers did. Extrapolation from the data yields a prevalence of DSM-III-R dissociative disorders among college students of 11.0%.
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1991-09-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 134-146 : Double consciousness in Britain 1815-1875Hacking, Ianhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/14512015-06-17T19:52:02Z1991-09-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Vol. 4, No. 3, p. 134-146 : Double consciousness in Britain 1815-1875
Hacking, Ian
This paper describes the formulations of double consciousness current in mid-nineteenth century Britain. It was a quite well defined clinical entity. Criteria for its diagnosis overlap with but are not identical to those now used for MPD. The disorder was uniformly regarded as rare, but there was a steady flow of case reports. This paper cites a number that have long been ignored, and allusions to less florid unpublished observations, including prepubertal cases. Also included are references to continental cases, described in the eighteenth century as cataleptic somnambulism. The preeminence of the concept of double consciousness, which emerged early in the nineteenth century, ended in 1875. It was replaced by the concept of multiple personality. The immediate interest in, and use of multiple personality in 1875 was to prove a philosophic point about the nature of the mind.
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