“…This experience of trauma has potentially pernicious, acute, and long-term psychological effects (Gershuny & Thayer, 1999). Although dissociative experiences are also not uncommon in members of the general population, this is particularly the case in members of the population that have experienced trauma (Kihlstrom, Glisky, & Angiulo, 1994;Ray & Faith, 1995, Ross, Joshi, & Currie, 1991. Although there are established links between direct personal traumatic experiences and dissociation (Spiegel & Cardena, 1991), it has also been suggested that indirect experiences (e.g., witnessing violence rather than being a victim of it) are similarly responsible for dissociative experiences (Singer, Anglin, Song, & Lunghofer, 1995).…”