Dissociation and eating psychopathology: Gender differences in a nonclinical population

Meyer, Caroline; Waller, Glenn

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“…e degree of scienti c novelty of the results obtained is ambiguous. In particular, the results obtained in the present study, showing greater severity of dissociative processes in women su ering from non-psychotic mental disorders compared to men, con rm the data of several previous studies (Akyüz et al, 1999;Meyer & Waller, 1998;Ol , Langeland, Draijer, & Gersons, 2007;Vanderlinden, van Dyck, Vandereycken, & Vertommen, 1993). As a possible explanation of this fact, one study suggested the di erent nature of mental injuries that underlie dissociative disorders in men and women, in particular, the greater vulnerability of women to sexual violence (Wamser-Nanney & Cherry, 2018).…”

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Dissociation in Patients with Non-Psychotic Mental Disorders

Iskanderova¹,

Vasilyev²

2021

Psych. Rus.

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Background. Dissociation is a generally recognized phenomenon in psychology and psychiatry; however, questions are still not fully resolved about the di!erence between pathological and normal dissociation, as well as the role of dissociation, depending on its aetiology, in the formation of clinical manifestations of mental disorders. Objective. To complement the existing data about the signi"cance of dissociation in non-psychotic mental disorders. Design. Using the Dissociative Experience Scale (DES), we screened 62 patients (13 male and 49 female) from the Non-Psychotic Conditions Inpatient Department of the Udmurt Republican Clinical Psychiatric Hospital (Izhevsk, Russia). Nineteen of the patients had mental disorders of organic aetiology and 43 patients had mental disorders of psychogenic aetiology. Results. Dissociation at the pathological level was detected in 12.9% of the patients, all of them female. Among patients with psychogenic disorders, the proportion of patients with pathological dissociation was more than three times that of patients with organic disorders. Among the particular dissociative phenomena, absorption had the highest average severity, both in the general sample and in each aetiological group of patients, while dissociative amnesia had the lowest average severity. #e highest levels of dissociation were found in young female patients who had never been married. In patients with psychogenic disorders, the average dissociation severity was signi"cantly higher than in the general population, while in patients with organic disorders it was signi"cantly lower. Conclusion. #e dissociation phenomenon may play a signi"cant symptomforming role in young women su!ering from non-psychotic mental disorders of psychogenic aetiology. In the case of organic mental disorders, the severity of dissociative manifestations decreases even below the conditionally normal level, which may indirectly indicate the destruction of dissociative physiological mechanisms by an organic brain process.

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Dissociation in Patients with Non-Psychotic Mental Disorders

Iskanderova¹,

Vasilyev²

2021

Psych. Rus.

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“…Subjects who reported serious trauma had more frequent amnesia, identity alterations, depersonalization, and derealization. Meyer and Waller (1998) concluded that it is not helpful to treat dissociation as a unitary construct when researching eating disorders. Testing 249 male and female students, using the EDI and the DES, women's EDI scores were found to be related most strongly to experiences of depersonalization and derealization with absorption possibly playing an indirect role (through poor impulse regulation).…”

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“…Dissociation Constructs: Implications for Self-Defeating Eating Meyer and Waller (1998) suggested that dissociation is not a unitary construct, especially in relation to eating disorders. Scales used to measure dissociation have been found to consist of more than one factor (Fischer & Elnitsky, 1990), and such questionnaires have yielded intercorrelations that are so insignificant that the measures are not interchangeable (Frischoltz et al, 1991).…”

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“…Body image is one of the major contributors to dysfunctional eating, according to the cognitivebehavioral and feminist viewpoints. Although the subject groups were Downloaded by [Florida State University] at 02:47 21 October 2014 (McManus, 1995;Meyer & Waller, 1998;Rosen & Petty, 1994;Vanderlinden, Spinhoven, Vandereycken, & van Dyck, 1995).…”

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Hypnotizability, Eating Behaviors, Attitudes, and Concerns:A Literature Survey

Hutchinson‐Phillips

Gow

Jamieson

2007

International Journal of Clinical and Experimental Hypnosis

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The literature suggests that aspects of hypnotizability may be involved in the etiology and maintenance of self-defeating eating. However, interpretation of the published research findings has been complicated by the use of instruments that appear to have measured different or, at best, only related facets of the underlying constructs. This article reports relationships between weight, shape, dietary concerns, hypnotizability, dissociative capacity, and fantasy proneness. Implications for a key role for hypnosis in the treatment of eating behaviors, attitudes, and concerns are discussed.

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Are Oral, Obsessive, and Hysterical Personality Traits Related to Disturbed Eating Patterns? A General Population Study of 6,313 Men and Women

Perry¹,

Silvera²,

Rosenvinge³

et al. 2002

Journal of Personality Assessment

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In this study, we explored 3 psychodynamically defined personality traits as predictors of eating disturbances among men and women in the general population. The Basic Character Inventory (Torgersen, 1980) was used to measure oral, obsessive, and hysteria traits along with the Eating Disturbance Scale (Rosenvinge et al., 2001). Oral personality factors were the primary predictors of eating disturbances in both genders-both men and women with eating disturbances tended to score highly on measures of emotional instability, self-doubt, compliance, and sensitivity. In women, the presence of oral personality factors in addition to the absence of the obsessive factor Parsimony accounted for 16% of the variance in eating disturbances. In men, oral personality factors in addition to the presence of the hysterical factor Imagination accounted for 13% of the variance in eating disturbances. This last finding suggests that, in addition to oral characteristics, men with eating disturbances may exhibit dissociative traits and imaginative absorption.

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Dissociation and eating psychopathology: Gender differences in a nonclinical population

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Dissociation in Patients with Non-Psychotic Mental Disorders

Dissociation in Patients with Non-Psychotic Mental Disorders

Hypnotizability, Eating Behaviors, Attitudes, and Concerns:A Literature Survey

Are Oral, Obsessive, and Hysterical Personality Traits Related to Disturbed Eating Patterns? A General Population Study of 6,313 Men and Women

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