Dissociation Archives

Dissociative and traumatic experiences in people with eating disorders (Current Opinion in Psychiatry)

This review synthesizes existing literature on the prevalence, assessment, and treatment of dissociation, focusing on its manifestation in eating disorders and explores dissociation, its relationship with trauma, and its role in emotion regulation.

The role of dissociation in surviving severe, systemic bullying: A reflective narrative for EMDR therapists (and trauma-responsive clinicians serving LGBTQ+ folx) (Delaware Journal of Public Health)

This article will focus on how repetitive, systemic bullying often leads to complex trauma and dissociative experiences for survival, and how an integrative, culturally responsible therapeutic approach is necessary for EMDR trained therapists.

Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation – 60-item version (MID-60) (NovoPsych)

Clinically supported, 60-item version of the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation for use in assessing dissociative symptoms in adults.

In a UK sample, EMDR and other trauma therapists indicate beliefs in unconscious repression and dissociative amnesia (Memory)

This study provides data on UK mental health professionals’ beliefs about repression and dissociative amnesia and two dissociative trauma-related disorders, DID and PNES.

A multimodal-integrative approach to EMDR therapy (Routledge, 2025)

This chapter gives an overview of EMDR therapy with children affected by complex trauma and dissociation.

Ethics and EMDR Therapy

EMDRIA members Jennifer Madere and D. Michael Coy discuss ethical considerations for EMDR therapy from a trauma-informed perspective.

Response of patients with complex forms of PTSD to highly intensive trauma treatment: A clinical cohort study (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy)

This study investigated whether patients with the dissociative subtype of PTSD (PTSD + DS) and patients with probable complex PTSD (CPTSD) draw equal benefits from a highly intensive trauma treatment program that includes EMDR therapy as patients with PTSD.

Alexithymia, dissociation and emotional regulation in eating disorders: Evidence of improvement through specialized inpatient treatment (Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)

67 female eating disorder inpatients (anorexia nervosa, bulimia nervosa, binge eating disorder) were treated with EMDR and other methods.

Dissociation

Dissociative and traumatic experiences in people with eating disorders (Current Opinion in Psychiatry)

The role of dissociation in surviving severe, systemic bullying: A reflective narrative for EMDR therapists (and trauma-responsive clinicians serving LGBTQ+ folx) (Delaware Journal of Public Health)

Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation – 60-item version (MID-60) (NovoPsych)

In a UK sample, EMDR and other trauma therapists indicate beliefs in unconscious repression and dissociative amnesia (Memory)

A multimodal-integrative approach to EMDR therapy (Routledge, 2025)

Ethics and EMDR Therapy

Response of patients with complex forms of PTSD to highly intensive trauma treatment: A clinical cohort study (Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy)

Alexithymia, dissociation and emotional regulation in eating disorders: Evidence of improvement through specialized inpatient treatment (Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy)

Assessing dissociation: A systematic review and evaluation of existing measures (Journal of Psychiatric Research)

Dissociative Experiences Scale – II (DES-II) (NovoPsych)

Dissociative Experiences Scale – II (Screening Tool)

Dissociation FAQs (Website)

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