A note on suicidal deterioration with recovered memory treatment

Borderline personality disorder and childhood trauma: Evidence for a causal relationship

“…Second, focusing therapy on childhood trauma is not without risks. For example, recovered memory treatment can lead to a worsening of suicidality [48], or trauma-focused therapy with BPD patients can lead to their early termination of therapy [49]. Plainly, further research on trauma-related therapies for patients with BPD and a history of childhood trauma is required.…”

A Review of Published Research on Adult Dissociative Identity Disorder

“…Among the case studies, nine articles specified the method of diagnosis; the use of the DSM criteria was most common (Fishbain et al, 2001;Humphreys et al, 2005;Lin et al, 2007;Okugawa et al, 2005;Williams et al, 2003), and the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D) was also used (Kellett, 2005;Savitz et al, 2004;Yücel et al, 2000). Among the empirical studies, structured interviews such as the SCID-D and the Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule were the most common methods of diagnosis (79%), followed by the DSM criteria (10%; Dorahy et al, 2002;Hermans et al, 2006;Irle et al, 2007;Lapointe et al, 2006;Somer and Nave, 2000;Steinberg et al, 2005;van der Hart et al, 2005), clinical diagnosis (9%; Coons and Bowman, 2001;Dell, 2002Dell, , 2006aDell, , 2006bLev-Wiesel, 2005;Pica et al, 2001), and unspecified/unclear methods (4%; Dougherty, 2002;Fetkewicz et al, 2000;Ross and Ellason, 2001). Only one study reported the use of hypnosis during treatment (Krakauer, 2009).…”

“…The most common focus of the descriptive studies was the clinical features of DID Dell, 2002Dell, , 2006bDorahy et al, 2006b;Ebrinc et al, 2008;Fetkewicz et al, 2000;Ö ztürk and Sar, 2008;Rauschenberger and Prevalence Across Culture Next, we examined whether researchers have documented DID across cultures. Most of the case studies occurred in Western countries, but there were also cases from Japan (Okugawa et al, 2005;Uchinuma and Sekine, 2000), Taiwan (Lin et al, 2007), South Africa (Savitz et al, 2004), andTurkey (Yücel et al, 2000).…”

Adults’ retractions of childhood sexual abuse allegations: high-stakes and the (in)validation of recollection

“…As a result, several articles and chapters (Ashmore & Brown, 2010;Davis, 2005;Fetkewicz, Sharma, & Merskey, 2000;de Rivera, 1998;Woodiwiss, 2010) were reviewed but excluded from the analysis presented here because, although they refer to retractors, they did not focus explicitly on the process of endorsing and withdrawing belief. Inspecting citations of the remaining studies then identified more recent work.…”

“…I could tell you [in] huge, vivid graphic detail all of this, I wouldn't even be able to do that now" (Ost & Nunkoosing, 2010, p. 29) from the source-monitoring framework (Lindsay, 2008), one might also call this socially situated source attribution. But just because a history of abuse might be seen as a personally plausible event, it does not mean that one would develop (false) beliefs or recollections about having been a victim of such abuse, sometimes to the detriment of one's own health (Fetkewicz et al, 2000). Yet in certain contexts, false beliefs, (mis)beliefs or vacillating beliefs, may not necessarily be maladaptive (e.g., McKay & Dennett, 2009).…”