Dissociation in posttraumatic stress disorder: evidence from the world mental health surveys.

  • Dan J Stein
  • Karestan C Koenen
  • Matthew J Friedman
  • Eric Hill
  • Katie A McLaughlin
  • Maria Petukhova
  • Ayelet Meron Ruscio
  • Victoria Shahly
  • David Spiegel
  • Guilherme Borges
  • Brendan Bunting
  • Jose Miguel Caldas-de-Almeida
  • Giovanni de Girolamo
  • Koen Demyttenaere
  • Silvia Florescu
  • Josep Maria Haro
  • Elie G Karam
  • Viviane Kovess-Masfety
  • Sing Lee
  • Herbert Matschinger
  • Maya Mladenova
  • Jose Posada-Villa
  • Hisateru Tachimori
  • Maria Carmen Viana
  • Ronald C Kessler

Abstract

Although the proposal for a dissociative subtype of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in DSM-5 is supported by considerable clinical and neurobiological evidence, this evidence comes mostly from referred samples in Western countries. Cross-national population epidemiologic surveys were analyzed to evaluate generalizability of the subtype in more diverse samples.

Bibliographical data

Original languageEnglish
Article number4
ISSN0006-3223
Publication statusPublished - 2013
Externally publishedYes
pubmed 23059051