Trauma-coerced attachment: Developing DSM-5′s dissociative disorder “identity disturbance due to prolonged and intense coercive persuasion”

The Reconsecration of the Self: A Qualitative Analysis of Sex Trafficking Survivors’ Experience of the Body

“…Data for the current study was obtained from a semistructured interview section embedded in a larger project (Doychak, 2022; Doychak & Raghavan, 2020) with self-identified sex-trafficked women. Institutional Review Board approval was obtained in June 2017.…”

“…Consent is crucial for understanding women's choices and legally, whether a crime has been committed (Bohns, 2022). Voluntary consent to engage in CS essentially defines whether a situation is categorized as a noncoercive CS situation or a coerced ST situation (Doychak, 2022; The Victims of Trafficking and Violence Protection Act, 2000), although it is important to note that consent has not been measured in a nuanced or in-depth way that accounts for coercion in women's consent. Estimates suggest that pimp-based control accounts for 40% to 85% of all women in CSST (Farley et al, 2014; Norton-Hawk, 2004; Williamson & Cluse-Tolar, 2002).…”

“…The current study explored the mind–body relationship, and the impact of self-perceived consent or non-consent in the initial CS encounter on the mind–body relationship, in a sample of 79 female ST victim-survivors 4 . To this end, open-ended questions about the mind–body relationship were added to a larger study of trauma-coerced attachment (Doychak, 2022; Doychak & Raghavan, 2020) among ST victim-survivors. Our analysis was first guided by the research question: how did women initially consent or not consent to CS (RQ1)?…”