Lipschitz, "Prevalence of
dissociative disorders in psychiatric outpatients," The American Journal of Psychiatry, vol.
Dissociation and
dissociative disorders: Challenging conventional wisdom.
The original SDQ-20 items were derived from a pool of 75 items describing somatoform dissociative symptoms usually present in patients with
dissociative disorders. The original Dutch questionnaire exhibited good psychometric characteristics with good internal consistency, concurrent validity, and convergent validity (Nijenhuis et al., 1996; Sweere et al., 1998).
A hypothesis exists that CD frequently coexists with
dissociative disorders and that both disorders are frequently associated with a history of childhood trauma (15,23,24,25).
Key Words: Conversion Disorder,
Dissociative Disorder, Anxiety symptoms, Co-morbidity.
ICD-10 classifies this disorder into dissociative amnesia, dissociative fatigue, dissociative stupor,
dissociative disorders of movement and sensation, dissociative motor disorders, dissociative convulsions, dissociative anaesthesia and sensory loss, mixed dissociative [conversion] disorders and other dissociative [conversion] disorders3.
Frequency of
dissociative disorders among psychiatric outpatients in Turkey.
Additionally, a possible
dissociative disorder was indicated in 10% of the FM patients and 2% of the RA patients.
Obsessive-compulsive disorder always has lacked such therapies; so have dementia, schizophrenia, personality disorders,
dissociative disorders, and sexual pathologies.