Case Report: Trance in Mental Retardation

Abstract

BACKGROUND: Mental retardation (MR) is a developmental condition that is associated with significant intellectual and adaptive behavioral limitations, whereas dissociative trance disorder (DTD) is a dissociative condition characterized by a temporary altered state of consciousness formed by one’s culture. Comorbidity between these two disorders has rarely been reported. CASE REPORT: We found a case of MR in a 32-year-old woman, Mrs. S, with a DTD who killed her five children during her trance. CONCLUSION: It was found that there is a relationship between psychosocial stressor factors, trauma, underlying psychiatric conditions, culture, and communication that influence trance conditions. Further research is needed to study and understand more about these disorders and comorbidities.

A Case Study of Possession and Trance Disorder in Salai Jin Ritual: Etiology, Diagnostics, and Therapeutics

“…Furthermore, ICD-11 explains the very shallow boundaries between PTD and DID or Partial DID as alternative personality states in PTD associated with external (rather than internal) possessive agents. This suggests that aside from how patients interpret their symptoms, PTD and complex dissociative disorder present clinically in a similar way [5,7,8].…”