Dissociative Experiences In Iranian Depressed Patients

Firoozabadi, Ali; Golshani, Senobar; Razeghian, Lila; Rahimi, Somayeh; Sepehry, Amir Ali; Farnia, Vahid; Tatari, Faezeh; Hookari, Sara; Alikhani, Mostafa

doi:10.1080/15299732.2019.1597804

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“…During these years, both political and religious types of authority appear to have been challenged and weakened in the country ( 64 ), and that authoritarian other seems to have faded and the bewildered person has been left alone to deal with stress, a situation beyond one’s power. Therefore, the prevalence of dissociative disorders has had an ascending trend ( 13 ).…”

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“…Although several studies indicate the high prevalence of dissociative symptoms in many Iranian psychiatric illnesses, and there have even been reports of culture-related dissociative disorders in some parts of Iran ( 11 ), these culture-bound syndromes have still been associated with a low prevalence ( 12 ). Overall, it seems that dissociative disorders as a stand-alone disorder have a very low prevalence in Iran ( 13 - 15 ). Explaining how all dissociative disorders have such low prevalence in Iran is a delicate job that has not been completed.…”

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“…A popular answer that could explain the low prevalence of dissociative disorders in Iran is that Iranian psychiatrists and psychologists refuse to diagnose anything they witness in their patients as a dissociative disorder and symptom ( 13 ). However, there are very few studies corroborating this answer.…”

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Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia

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2021

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Epidemiologic and etiological studies of dissociative disorders are a challenging area in psychiatry. These challenges become more complex when noting that the existing theories cannot explain the differences observed in certain cases; for example, studies in Iran have reported the prevalence of dissociative disorders (dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, and depersonalization disorder) as less than 0.6%, and there has been no reported case of dissociative identity disorder (DID) in this country; meanwhile, the prevalence of all dissociative disorders in the general population of the US has been reported as 18.3%, and the prevalence of DID as about 1.1%. Although several studies indicate the high prevalence of dissociative symptoms in many Iranian psychiatric illnesses, dissociative disorders as a stand-alone disorder have a very low prevalence in Iran. The present article attempts to propose a possible hypothesis for the answer to the above questions through a different cultural conceptualization and seeks to be of some help to future studies in this area. Certainly, this hypothesis requires a careful study to be validated.

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“…Numerous clinical studies have provided fascinating accounts of unique cultural manifestations of dissociation, dissociative disorders and possession phenomena. These studies originate from many countries, states or territories, e.g., Argentina (Baita, 2006); Brazil (Delmonte, Lucchetti, Moreira-Almeida, & Farias, 2016;Negro, Palladino-Negro, & Louzã, 2002), China (Fung, 2018); China and Canada (Ross, 2011); China and Japan (Kleindorfer, 2006); French Canadian students (Martin & Marchand, 2003); Guinea Bissau (de Jong & Reis, 2013); Hawaii (Rhoades, 2006); Hong Kong (Hong Wang Fung, Ross, Yu, & Lau, 2019); India (Chaturvedi, Desai, & Shaligram, 2010); Iran (Firoozabadi et al, 2019;Kianpoor & Rhoades, 2013); Israel (Somer, 2006); Mauritius (Pietkiewicz & Lecoq-Bamboche, 2017); Nepal (Sapkota et al, 2014); Pakistan (Roland, 2010); Philippines (Gingrich, 2006); Puerto Rico (Lewis-Fernández, Martínez-Taboas, Sar, Patel, & Boatin, 2007) (Lewis-Fernández et al, 2002;Martínez-Taboas, 1999;Wilson & Tang, 2007); South Africa (Krüger, 2016); Turkey (Şar, Akyüz, & Doğan, 2007;Sar, Alioglu, & Akyuz, 2014); and Uganda (van Duijl, Kleijn, & de Jong, 2013van Duijl, Nijenhuis, Komproe, Gernaat, & de Jong, 2010). Dorahy et al (2014) point out that cultural variation in the clinical manifestation of DID remains under-researched.…”

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Culture, trauma and dissociation: A broadening perspective for our field

Krüger

2019

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

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In the field of trauma and dissociation, culture has a significant influence on the clinical presentation of patients. A growing body of literature addresses the relationship between culture and dissociation. Studies of this relationship though, evoke the important, but at the same time extremely sensitive issue of cross-cultural comparisons. In this editorial, I provide a limited overview of various ways in which cultural influences have been addressed in the field of trauma and dissociation. Most studies have examined the occurrence of dissociative disorders in clinical populations in different cultures and countries. Some have focused on normative dissociation as a response to traumatic events in non-clinical samples from different cultures. This editorial also explores the concepts of double consciousness and black consciousness, which have emerged from the fields of social psychology and black psychology; and how these concepts influence our thinking about non-clinical dissociation. Culture-related challenges in the field of trauma and dissociation create opportunities for training in cultural competence for therapists. Qualitative research methods might be best suited to future research on the relationship between culture, trauma and dissociation. The chances of reaching a thorough and deep understanding of the influence of culture on trauma and dissociation might be best if the entire spectrum of dissociation is studiedfrom normal to pathological dissociation, and in its different manifestations from universal to those unique to certain cultural groups.

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Dissociative depression and its related clinical and psychological characteristics among Chinese prisoners: A latent class analysis

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Dissociative Experiences In Iranian Depressed Patients

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Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia

Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia

Culture, trauma and dissociation: A broadening perspective for our field

Dissociative depression and its related clinical and psychological characteristics among Chinese prisoners: A latent class analysis

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