Dissociation and recovery in psychosis - an overview of the literature.
Claudia Calciu, Rob Macpherson, Sui Yung Chen, Madalina Zlate, Rosemary C King, Kerry J Rees, Camelia Soponaru, Jackie Webb
Frontiers in psychiatry January 1, 2024 Peer reviewed DOI: 10.3389/fpsyt.2024.1327783 via PubMed
Summary
The review highlights the lack of existing research connecting dissociation with recovery from psychosis, despite the relevance to clinical practice. Out of 2110 articles initially selected, only 19 met the criteria for inclusion, and none addressed the relationship between these concepts in a unified way. This indicates a gap in the literature that future studies could explore.
Study at a glance
| Design | systematic review |
|---|---|
| Sample size | 19 |
| Population | publications on dissociation and recovery from psychosis |
| Key finding | None of the included publications examined the relationship between dissociation and recovery from an episode of psychosis. |
Abstract
The relationship between dissociation and recovery from psychosis is a new topic, which could attract the interest of the researchers in the field of dissociation due to its relevance to their daily clinical practice. This review brings together a diversity of international research and theoretical views on the phenomenology of dissociation, psychosis and recovery and provides a synthesis by narrative and tabulation of the existing knowledge related to these concepts. The objective was to make a synthesis by narrative and tabulation about what is known on the topic. The systematic search was conducted according to the PRISMA-statement in the databases Medline, PsycInfo, PubMed and Google Scholar. 2110 articles were selected according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria detailed in the methods, and 19 records were included in the review. None of the included publications put together, in the same conceptualisation or hypothesis, dissociation and the recovery from an episode of psychosis, therefore this matter remains unstudied at this time. The process of reviewing the existing scientific literature in the field of dissociation and recovery from psychosis has been very useful for charting the direction that future research will take.