The frequency of multiple personality disorder among psychiatric inpatients. Dissociative comorbidity in 100 chemically dependent patients. Psychiatric health care costs of multiple personality disorder. The process of coping with sexual trauma. Presents a conceptual system that characterizes the coping process of recovery from sexual trauma.
Preliminary reliability is discussed.
False memory proponents assumes child sexual abuse would always be recalled accurately, whereas memory would be easily distorted in the survivor. Denial, secrecy, re-enactment of trauma, alcoholic blackouts and outright lying are all potential explanations for perpetrator memory loss and motivated forgetting. Social support and coping strategies as mediators of adult adjustment following child maltreatment. Dissociation and childhood trauma in psychologically disturbed adolescence. Psychobiological consequences of severe trauma.