Should the Dissociative Disorders Field Choose Its Own Diagnostic Criteria for Dissociative Identity Disorder?

The current paper aims to describe and exemplify the pathology that is increasingly common in contemporary society, compared to the Freudian period in which repression was dominating. Dissociative disorders are usually associated with overwhelming stress, which can be generated by traumatic life events, accidents or disasters experienced directly or witnessed by the individual, or unbearable inner conflicts, which force the mind to separate incompatible or unacceptable pieces of information and feelings.

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Dissociative Disorders

10.1093/med/9780190265557.003.0021 ◽

2017 ◽

Author(s):

David Matuskey

Keyword(s):

Dissociative Identity Disorder ◽

Dissociative Disorders ◽

Dissociative Amnesia ◽

Depersonalization Disorder

In this chapter topics related to dissociative disorders are reviewed including dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, dissociative identity disorder, depersonalization disorder and derealization disorder

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DSM-V: User-friendly diagnostic criteria and an expanded nosology for the dissociative disorders

PsycEXTRA Dataset ◽

10.1037/e608952012-010 ◽

2007 ◽

Author(s):

Paul Dell ◽

Daphne Simeon ◽

Vedat Sar

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Dissociative Disorders ◽

Dsm V ◽

User Friendly

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Updating Diagnostic Criteria for Dissociative Disorders

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation ◽

10.1300/j229v02n01_07 ◽

2001 ◽

Vol 2 (1) ◽

pp. 59-63 ◽

Cited By ~ 7

Author(s):

Marlene Steinberg

Keyword(s):

Diagnostic Criteria ◽

Dissociative Disorders

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Discriminating among Diagnostic Categories Using the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule

Psychological Reports ◽

10.2466/pr0.96.2.445-453 ◽

2005 ◽

Vol 96 (2) ◽

pp. 445-453 ◽

Cited By ~ 28

Author(s):

Colin A. Ross ◽

Joan Weathersbee Ellason

Keyword(s):

Mahalanobis Distance ◽

Diagnostic Category ◽

Dissociative Identity Disorder ◽

Dissociative Disorders ◽

Dissociative Disorder ◽

Interview Schedule ◽

Diagnostic Categories ◽

Not Otherwise Specified ◽

Discrete Category

The Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule was administered to 1,308 subjects in eight diagnostic categories, including 296 with dissociative identity disorder. The study tested three hypotheses: (1) the Mahalanobis distance between dissociative identity disorder and each of seven other diagnostic categories would be large, (2) the closest diagnostic category to dissociative identity disorder would be dissociative disorder not otherwise specified, and (3) nondissociative diagnostic categories would be closer to each other than any one to dissociative identity disorder. All three hypotheses were confirmed by these data. The findings support the conclusion that dissociative identity disorder is a discrete category or taxon.

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