Child Abuse in the Etiology of Dissociative Disorders

Abstract

(from the chapter) analyzes in detail [the] proposed etiologic association between childhood abuse and MPD [multiple personality disorder] / review case histories and case surveys in which adults and children describe sadistically assaultive and soul-murdering childhood environments and the depersonalization phenomena and fantasy absorption that took place during moments when this environment became overwhelming / examine the problem of corroborating histories of child abuse, which remains a major objection to the hypothesis / review similiarities between dissociative disorder patients and other child abuse survivors similarity of symptom patterns / similarities in historical responses (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2015 APA, all rights reserved)