DIS.connected

An international network of early career researchers studying dissociative experiences.

Publications

Check out our recent publications on dissociation!

  1. Theories, Measurements, Diagnoses, & Classifications of Dissociation
  2. Dissociation & Psychological Processes
  3. Cultural Representation of Dissociation
  4. Dissociation & Self-Injurious and Suicidal Behaviors
  5. Dissociation & Psychosis
  6. Neuropsychological & Psychophysiological Correlates of Dissociation
  7. Dissociation & Early Childhood Experience
  8. Dissociation & Memory
  9. Dissociation & Access to Care
Theories, Measurements, Diagnoses, & Classifications of Dissociation

Danböck, S. K., Hettegger, S., Anders, S., Franke, L. K., Liedlgruber, M., Miedl, S., … & Wilhelm, F. H. (2023). Psychometric Properties of the Dissociative Subtype of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder Scale: Replication and Extension in Two German-Speaking Samples.

Barth, M. R., Brand, B. L., & Nester, M. S. (2023). Distinguishing clinical and simulated dissociative identity disorder using the Miller Forensic Assessment of Symptoms Test. Psychological Trauma: Theory, Research, Practice, and Policy. Advance online publication.

Mertens, Y. L., & Daniels, J. K. (2022). The Clinician-Administered Dissociative States Scale (CADSS): Validation of the German Version. Journal of trauma & dissociation, 23(4), 366-384.

Lebois, L. A., Kaplan, C. S., Palermo, C. A., Pan, X., & Kaufman, M. L. (2022). A grounded theory of dissociative identity disorder: Placing DID in mind, brain, and body. In Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders (pp. 392-408). Routledge.

Nester, M. S., Schielke, H. J., Brand, B. L., & Loewenstein, R. J. (2022). Dissociative identity disorder: Diagnostic accuracy and DSM-5 criteria change implications. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 23(4), 451-463.

Černis, E., Beierl, E., Molodynski, A., Ehlers, A., & Freeman, D. (2021). A new perspective and assessment measure for common dissociative experiences:‘Felt Sense of Anomaly’. PLoS One, 16(2), e0247037.

Hill, S. B., Wolff, J. D., Bigony, C. E., Winternitz, S. R., Ressler, K. J., Kaufman, M. L., & Lebois, L. A. (2020). Dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder in women in partial and residential levels of psychiatric care. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 21(3), 305-318.

Černis, E., Cooper, M., & Chan, C. (2018). Developing a new measure of dissociation: The Dissociative Experiences Measure, Oxford. Psychiatry Research, 269, 229-236.

Dissociation & Psychological Processes

Lofthouse, M. K., Waite, P., & Černis, E. (2023). Developing an understanding of the relationship between anxiety and dissociation in adolescence. Psychiatry research, 115219.

Danböck, S. K., Franke, L. K., Miedl, S. F., Liedlgruber, M., Bürkner, P. C., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2023). Experimental induction of peritraumatic dissociation: The role of negative affect and pain and their psychophysiological and neural correlates. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 164, 104289.

Černis, E., Ehlers, A., & Freeman, D. (2022). Psychological mechanisms connected to dissociation: Generating hypotheses using network analyses. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 148, 165-173.

Pan, X., Palermo, C. A., Kaplan, C. S., Harnett, N. G., Winternitz, S. R., Kaufman, M. L., & Lebois, L. A. (2022). Anxiety sensitivity predicts depression severity in individuals with dissociative identity disorder. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 155, 263-268.

Černis, E., Evans, R., Ehlers, A., & Freeman, D. (2021). Dissociation in relation to other mental health conditions: An exploration using network analysis. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 136, 460-467.

Danböck, S. K., Rattel, J. A., Franke, L. K., Liedlgruber, M., Miedl, S. F., & Wilhelm, F. H. (2021). Peritraumatic dissociation revisited: associations with autonomic activation, facial movements, staring, and intrusion formation. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1991609.

Lebois, L. A., Palermo, C. A., Scheuer, L. S., Lebois, E. P., Winternitz, S. R., Germine, L., & Kaufman, M. L. (2020). Higher integration scores are associated with facial emotion perception differences in dissociative identity disorder. Journal of psychiatric research, 123, 164-170.

Cultural Representation of Dissociation

Pierorazio, N. A., Nester, M. S., Shandler, G., & Brand, B. L. (2023). “This ‘prison’ where I cannot heal:” Interactions of culture, dissociation, and treatment among individuals who dissociate. European Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 100325.

Dissociation & Self-Injurious and Suicidal Behaviors

Nester, M. S., Pierorazio, N. A., Shandler, G., & Brand, B. L. (2023). Characteristics, methods, and functions of non-suicidal self-injury among highly dissociative individuals. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 24(3), 333-347.

Caulfield, N. M., Karnick, A. T., & Capron, D. W. (2022). Exploring dissociation as a facilitator of suicide risk: A translational investigation using virtual reality. Journal of affective disorders, 297, 517-524.

Nester, M. S., Boi, C., Brand, B. L., & Schielke, H. J. (2022). The reasons dissociative disorder patients self-injure. European journal of psychotraumatology, 13(1), 2026738.

Nester, M. S., Brand, B. L., Schielke, H. J., & Kumar, S. (2022). An examination of the relations between emotion dysregulation, dissociation, and self-injury among dissociative disorder patients. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(1), 2031592.

Srinivasan, S., Harnett, N. G., Zhang, L., Dahlgren, M. K., Jang, J., Lu, S., … & Lebois, L. A. (2022). Unravelling psychiatric heterogeneity and predicting suicide attempts in women with trauma-related dissociation using artificial intelligence. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(2), 2143693.

Pachkowski, M. C., Rogers, M. L., Saffer, B. Y., Caulfield, N. M., & Klonsky, E. D. (2021). Clarifying the relationship of dissociative experiences to suicide ideation and attempts: a multimethod examination in two samples. Behavior therapy, 52(5), 1067-1079.

Černis, E., Chan, C., & Cooper, M. (2019). What is the relationship between dissociation and self‐harming behaviour in adolescents? Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy, 26(3), 328-338.

Dissociation & Psychosis

Schlesselmann, A. J., Huntjens, R. J., Renard, S. B., McNally, R. J., Albers, C. J., De Vries, V. E., & Pijnenborg, G. M. (2023). A network approach to trauma, dissociative symptoms, and psychosis symptoms in schizophrenia spectrum disorders. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 49(3), 559-568.

Černis, E., Molodynski, A., Ehlers, A., & Freeman, D. (2022). Dissociation in patients with non-affective psychosis: Prevalence, symptom associations, and maintenance factors. Schizophrenia Research, 239, 11-18.

Černis, E., Bird, J. C., Molodynski, A., Ehlers, A., & Freeman, D. (2021). Cognitive appraisals of dissociation in psychosis: a new brief measure. Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy, 49(4), 472-484.

Černis, E., Freeman, D., & Ehlers, A. (2020). Describing the indescribable: A qualitative study of dissociative experiences in psychosis. PLoS One, 15(2), e0229091.

Neuropsychological & Psychophysiological Correlates of Dissociation

Mertens, Y. L., Manthey, A., Sierk, A., de Jong, P., Walter, H., & Daniels, J. K. (2023). A pharmacological challenge paradigm to assess neural signatures of script-elicited acute dissociation in women with post-traumatic stress disorder. BJPsych Open, 9(3), e78.

Lebois, L. A., Harnett, N. G., van Rooij, S. J., Ely, T. D., Jovanovic, T., Bruce, S. E., … & Ressler, K. J. (2022). Persistent dissociation and its neural correlates in predicting outcomes after trauma exposure. American journal of psychiatry, 179(9), 661-672.

Lebois, L. A., Ross, D. A., & Kaufman, M. L. (2022). “I Am Not I”: The Neuroscience of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Biological psychiatry, 91(3), e11-e13.

Mertens, Y. L., Manthey, A., Sierk, A., Walter, H., & Daniels, J. K. (2022). Neural correlates of acute post-traumatic dissociation: A functional neuroimaging script-driven imagery study. BJPsych Open, 8(4), e109.

Schäflein, E., Mertens, Y. L., Lejko, N., Beutler, S., Sattel, H., & Sack, M. (2022). Altered frontal electroencephalography as a potential correlate of acute dissociation in dissociative disorders: novel findings from a mirror confrontation study. BJPsych Open, 8(6), e196.

Lebois, L. A., Li, M., Baker, J. T., Wolff, J. D., Wang, D., Lambros, A. M., … & Kaufman, M. L. (2021). Large-scale functional brain network architecture changes associated with trauma-related dissociation. American Journal of Psychiatry, 178(2), 165-173.

Lotfinia, S., Soorgi, Z., Mertens, Y., & Daniels, J. (2020). Structural and functional brain alterations in psychiatric patients with dissociative experiences: A systematic review of magnetic resonance imaging studies. Journal of Psychiatric Research, 128, 5-15.

Beutler, S., Mertens, Y. L., Ladner, L., Schellong, J., Croy, I., & Daniels, J. K. (2022). Trauma-related dissociation and the autonomic nervous system: a systematic literature review of psychophysiological correlates of dissociative experiencing in PTSD patients. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 13(2), 2132599.

Dissociation & Early Childhood Experience

Mertens, Y. L., Racioppi, A., Sheinbaum, T., Kwapil, T., & Barrantes-Vidal, N. (2021). Dissociation and insecure attachment as mediators of the relation between childhood emotional abuse and nonclinical paranoid traits. European Journal of Psychotraumatology, 12(1), 1888539.

Dissociation & Memory
Dissociation & Access to Care

Nester, M. S., Hawkins, S. L., & Brand, B. L. (2022). Barriers to accessing and continuing mental health treatment among individuals with dissociative symptoms. European journal of psychotraumatology, 13(1), 2031594.