Dissociation : Volume 10, No. 2 (June 1997)https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/16572024-03-29T14:18:41Z2024-03-29T14:18:41ZDissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 080-090 : On the treatment of traumatic memories of DID patients: always? never? sometimes? now? later?Kluft, Richard P., 1943-https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18312015-06-17T19:54:17Z1997-06-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 080-090 : On the treatment of traumatic memories of DID patients: always? never? sometimes? now? later?
Kluft, Richard P., 1943-
Patients with Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) have been overwhelmed by early life events. However, their recollections of those events may become distorted in the course of their registration, retention, and retrieval of those events, and the processing of those recalled events may itself prove so difficult that efforts to do so risk retraumatizating them rather facilitating their growth. The integration of the DID patient's identity appears to require the working through his or her traumatic memories, however flawed with respect to historical accuracy and however emotionally unsettling work with such memories may be. Drawing upon a stage-oriented view of the treatment process and data from DTMI (Dimensions of Therapeutic Movement
Instrument) research, I will offer pragmatic guidelines with which to address the questions posed to me by the organizers of the Amsterdam Congress: Should we treat the traumatic memories of DID patients - Always? Never? Sometimes? Now? Later?
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1997-06-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 130-134 : A notion of "dissociogenic stress"Okano, Kenhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18292015-06-17T19:53:39Z1997-06-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 130-134 : A notion of "dissociogenic stress"
Okano, Ken
Dissociative disorders and the related stress can take different forms in different cultures. In Japanese society, the stress responsible for dissociative disorders appears less visible, embedded in a close relationship with others ("relational stress "), compared to more overt traumatic stress such as childhood sexual and physical abuse. It is more reasonable to include covert and apparently non-traumatic stress as a factor contributing to dissociative disorders, rather than to limit our attention to overt and stereotyped forms of trauma, including childhood sexual and physical abuse. Despite their different manifestations, covert stress and overt stress can both cause dissociative pathology in certain conditions. I postulate that these conditions involve the suppression of projection and externalization of negative mental contents. The stress in these conditions may be called "dissociogenic stress." Whether or not an individual develops a dissociative disorder as a result of dissociogenic stress also depends on the individual's constitutionally based dissociative and hypnotic tendencies and other exogenous stresses.
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1997-06-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 125-129 : The contribution of attachment to pets and attachment to nature to dissociation and absorptionBrown, Sue-EllenKatcher, Aaron Honorihttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18282015-06-17T19:53:36Z1997-06-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 125-129 : The contribution of attachment to pets and attachment to nature to dissociation and absorption
Brown, Sue-Ellen; Katcher, Aaron Honori
The intent of this study was to determine if people who were highly attached to pets and/or nature would have higher levels of dissociation and absorption as measured by the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) and the Tellegen Absorption Scale (TAS). Three hundred and five college students were given the DES, the TAS, the Pet Attachment Questionnaire (PAQ) and five questions devised to measure attachment to nature. Correlational analyses showed pet attachment was significantly correlated with both dissociation and absorption, while high nature attachment was significantly related to absorption but not significantly related to dissociation. Forty-one percent of subjects with high pet attachment had clinical levels of dissociation. As dissociation is often related to trauma, pet attachments may provide a compensatory relationship for people with histories of trauma. An attachment to nature may be indicative of seeking an experience of sensory absorption, but not a relationship.
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1997-06-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 120-124 : Frequency of EEG abnormalities in a large dissociative populationBraun, Bennett G.Schwartz, David R.Kravitz, Howard M.Waxman, Jordanhttps://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/handle/1794/18272015-06-17T19:52:35Z1997-06-01T00:00:00ZDissociation : Volume 10, No. 2, p. 120-124 : Frequency of EEG abnormalities in a large dissociative population
Braun, Bennett G.; Schwartz, David R.; Kravitz, Howard M.; Waxman, Jordan
A retrospective chart review was conducted to determine the frequency of electroencephalographic abnormalities, particularly those suggesting temporal lobe epilepsy (TLE), among patients with dissociative disorders. Electroencephalograms (EEGs) from 160 inpatients with dissociative disorders who were treated at either of two sites specializing in the diagnosis and treatment of dissociative disorders were reviewed. EEGs were categorized as normal, possible drug effect, or abnormal. Overall, 7.5 % of patients had EEGs that were interpreted as abnormal but only two (1 .25%) of the entire sample had findings that suggested TLE. The two sites differed significantly in the percentage read as abnormal (30.9% versus 10.5%; X2=19.4, df=2, p< .0001). According to these results, a small minority of patients with dissociative disorders have non-specific EEG abnormalities as well as more specific temporal lobe dysrhythmias. However, the population and context in which the dissociation-epilepsy association is explored will influence the outcome of any attempt to resolve the question regarding the relationship.
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