APS

2022 APS Annual Convention · 2022

Anxious and Avoidant Attachment Associated with Greater Internalizing Psychopathology in Dissociative Identity Disorder

Chicago, IL · May 2022

Poster · Clinical Science

  • 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

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