Dissociative disorders are thought to primarily be caused by psychological trauma.

Many times there is a link between dissociative disorders and memory fragmentation.

But other such experiences are less common and are more often found in people who do have dissociative disorders.

There are two common dissociative disorders in which fragmentation of memory can normally be found.

Enough cases were diagnosed to support a new profit center in mental hospitals, the dissociative disorders ward.

Some of these dissociative disorders, they're outwardly violent, or self-damaging, at least every once in a while.

It is the most severe and chronic manifestation of the dissociative disorders that cause multiple personalities.

He became the American expert in dissociative disorders, which he also called multiple personality disorder.

Dissociative disorders are usually paired with Nightmare Disorder 57% of the time.

Evidence is increasing that dissociative disorders are related both to a trauma history and to "specific neural mechanisms".

The prevailing post-traumatic model of dissociation and dissociative disorders is contested.

Tracking a scientific interest in the dissociative disorders: a study of scientific publication output from 1984-2003.

She has studied characteristics of dreams in various disorders including depression and dissociative disorders.

People with dissociative disorders use dissociation, a defense mechanism, pathologically and involuntarily.

A diagnosis of DID takes precedence over any other dissociative disorders.

Researchers at the Minnesota clinic estimate that about 7 percent of their parasomnia cases are actually nocturnal dissociative disorders.

Canadian and American Psychiatrists' attitudes toward dissociative disorders diagnoses.

They are considered a feature of conversion disorder, somatization disorder, and dissociative disorders.

Dissociative disorders are typically experienced as startling, autonomous intrusions into the person's usual ways of responding or functioning.

The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders varies from 10% in the general population to 46% in psychiatric inpatients.

For this reason, the use of hypnosis for certain mental disorders, such as dissociative disorders, remains controversial.

Amok is also sometimes considered one of the subcategories of dissociative disorders (cross-cultural variant).

Auditory pseudohallucinations are suggestive of dissociative disorders.

Along with the dissociation and multiple or split personalities, people with dissociative disorders may experience any of the following symptoms:

Dissociative disorders in DSM-5.