Dissociative Symptoms and Trauma Exposure: Specificity, Affect Dysregulation, and Posttraumatic Stress

@article{Briere2006DissociativeSA,
  title={Dissociative Symptoms and Trauma Exposure: Specificity, Affect Dysregulation, and Posttraumatic Stress},
  author={John Briere},
  journal={The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease},
  year={2006},
  volume={194},
  pages={78-82}
}
  • J. Briere
  • Published 1 February 2006
  • Psychology, Medicine
  • The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease
Although dissociation is often described as a posttraumatic response, the actual statistical association between trauma exposure and dissociative symptoms is surprisingly small. This suggests that that some dissociative phenomena may be unrelated to trauma, or may be related in more complex ways. Analysis of the normative data for the Multiscale Dissociation Inventory revealed significant dissociative symptoms in only 8% of trauma-exposed individuals from the general population. However, 90% of… 
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