One of the CDS trustees Julia Beker has had her work published in Clinical Psychology Review, which is available for open access (link at the bottom of this post). Co-written with Martin Dorahy, Jaimee Moir, and Jacinta Cording, it explores their systematically reviewed and meta-analytically assessed empirical research investigating inter-identity amnesia in dissociative identity disorder. They hope to bring a nuanced lens to this important and understudied phenomenon. Julia adds:
“Individuals who experience dissociative identity disorder often report a degree of amnesia between different identities. That is, while one identity has encoded, and has access to, particular memories or information, in another identity this may feel completely inaccessible. Recently, research on this phenomenon of ‘inter-identity amnesia’ has accrued. This paper collates such research systematically and meta-analytically to try and better understand the nature and extent of inter-identity amnesia in DID. Overall, we find disparate results, unclear conclusions, and some methodological considerations suggesting that we are still at the beginning stages of our understanding. The paper urges a nuanced lens into empirically assessing and conceptualising memory processes in DID.”
You can find the paper here: https://lnkd.in/eX9RJhVy
