The Sense of Self Over Time: Assessing Diachronicity in Dissociative Identity Disorder, Psychosis and Healthy Comparison Groups.
Frontiers in psychology January 1, 2021 Martin J Dorahy, Rafaële J C Huntjens, Rosemary J Marsh et al. 7 citations
Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is characterized by distinct identity states, each with its own sense of self, but whether these states provide a continuous self over time (diachronic unity) had not been studied. This study assessed diachronic disunity in 14 adults with DID (in both adult and child identity states), 19 adults with psychosis, 55 general-population adults, 26 general-population children, and 23 adults imagining themselves as children. Diachronic disunity appeared to some degree in all groups, not only psychiatric samples. DID adults reported more dissociation and self-confusion than psychosis and adult comparison groups but did not differ on the diachronic measure.