APS
2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022
Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Associated with Greater Internalizing Psychopathology in Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Chloe Kaplan
McLean Hospital - Cori Palermo
McLean Hospital - Xi Pan
McLean Hospital - Milissa Kaufman
McLean Hospital - Milissa Kaufman
Harvard Medical School - Lauren Lebois
McLean Hospital - Lauren Lebois
Harvard Medical School
Abstract
Theory implicates attachment insecurity (AI) in the development and maintenance of Dissociative identity disorder (DID). However, no empirical work has systematically documented AI and its links to psychopathology in DID. We found higher levels of AI were associated with more severe dissociative, depressive, and PTSD symptoms in DID.
Psychopathology