dissociative

• “BETHANY MARSHALL, PSYCHOANALYST: Well, I think such a brutal sex assault at this early age really paves the way for what we call the dissociative disorders.”

  CNN Transcript Sep 27, 2007

• “The concept of “repressed memory,” known by the diagnostic term dissociative amnesia, has long fueled controversy in psychiatry.”

  Speedlinking 12/26/07

• “Pope of Harvard Medical School, recently argued that the psychiatric disorder known as dissociative amnesia often called repressed memory”

  Science Project

• “Fear of abandonment grows to the point where the child won't risk further relationships and injury, causing difficulty in establishing appropriate friendships.48% of the children wind up with fears or phobias that never existed before. 44% of the children become physically aggressive. 31% of them suffer sleep disorders - unheard of in children not facing trauma. 27% are clinically depressed, and 24% develop "oppositional disorder." 13% are even bed-wetting into their teens, and 10% even become "dissociative" - they find alternative places to be - a severe psychiatric impairment.”

  January 2009

• “Psychiatrists interviewed by NEWSWEEK say that although they wouldn't rule out multiple-personality disorder — a controversial diagnosis technically known as dissociative identity disorder (DID) — Swinton's behavior doesn't match the usual profile (none of them has personally examined her).”

  Newsweek: Rozita Swinton’s Bad Call

• “This technique is also called dissociative thinking.”

  Simon & Schuster: Find Your Focus Zone

• “By the way, if you want to make a quick $1000, the study's authors are offering that sum to anyone who can disprove their theory by providing an example of a character created before the year 1800 who suffers from what can be readily identified as dissociative amnesia.”

  Harvard University Press Publicity Blog :

• “And this can include something called dissociative fugue.”

  CNN Transcript Jul 3, 2007

• “(The American Psychiatric Association has dropped multiple-personality disorder as a diagnostic category, replacing it with a different designation known as dissociative-identity disorder.)”

  The Wall Street Journal: Informed Reader

• “Multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder, is a controversial diagnosis that generally causes confusion whenever it appears in a legal case.”

  Mind Hacks: September 2006 Archives

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