American Journal Of Psychiatry Audio

Dr. Lauren A. M. Lebois (Dissociative Disorders and Trauma Research Program, McLean Hospital, Harvard Medical School) discusses persistent dissociation following trauma exposure and whether it can be predictive of later psychiatric outcomes in at risk populations. Afterwards, AJP Editor-in-Chief Dr. Ned Kalin discusses the rest of the September issue and what draws it together. Lebois interview [00:52] A prototypical adult dissociation case [01:51] Dissociation as a rollercoaster [05:48] The many ways of dissociation can be activated [08:04] Investigation through self-reporting and imaging [08:55] The imaging cohort [11:16] Biomarkers associated with dissociation and later psychiatric outcomes [11:54] Clinical treatment implications [15:09] Cambridge Depersonalization Scale and the Multidimensional Inventory of Dissociation [16:22] Limitations [16:57] What’s next for your research? [18:01] Kalin interview [19:42] Lebois et al. [19:56] Gregersen et al. [22:33] Kendler et al. [24:58] Chand et al. [27:49] Jaff