🎥 Our new psychoeducation video on dissociation (depersonalisation and derealisation), produced together with the fabulous @empathique.bsky.social team 🤗💕, is now online! 😍 It is in German with subtitles in English, French, Arabic, Turkish and Urdu 🌍 ➡️ m.youtube.com/watch?v=ep4W...

Wenn alles plötzlich unwirklich wirkt: Dissoziative Symptome einfach erklärt

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Depersonalisation-Derealisation Disorder affects around 2% of people yet there is limited guidance on treatments specifically for the condition. A feasibility trial of Cognitive Behaviour Therapy shows promise. 🌀 buff.ly/NVEYJIH #Depersonalisation #MentalHealth #CBT #Dissociation

New paper! This two-for-one review examines how reality monitoring related to both dissociation and psychosis and what this means for the dissociation-psychosis relationship. It also finds some big differences in how dissociation and psychosis are studied... doi.org/10.1016/j.jpsychires.2026.01.021

What drives #dissociation? In a study of adults with #PTSD (some with #DID), extreme negative beliefs like “there’s something wrong with me as a person” were linked to dissociation. When these beliefs decreased during treatment, so did dissociation. Free publication access: tinyurl.com/5n7f4hke

Call for abstracts for the Placebo, Hypnosis & Functional Disorders conference in Nancy (France), October 14–16, 2026 🚨 Beautiful location and fascinating talks/discussions about key scientific questions at the mind-body-society interface 💭🧠 Abstract deadline 27/04/26 www.phfd-conf.org/en/

Today is #DIDAwarenessDay. DID isn’t rare - and who bears the greatest burden of dissociative symptoms isn’t random. Our new paper finds higher provisional #DID prevalence among marginalized racial groups and gender-diverse people. 50 free copies: tinyurl.com/3ve744x5

Dissociation in children - case study This article will be helpful to clinicians everywhere that communities are suffering systemic oppression and familial coercive control

ISSTD@isstd-hq.bsky.social · 5mo ago

#OPENACCESS: Child Dissociation: The Descriptive Psychopathology Analysis of a Case https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/15299732.2024.2425087?src= #JTD

Are you a therapist who treats clients with dissociative disorders? See the attached recruitment ad for more details about a study on therapists’ experiences working with these clients around themes of death and dying!

The self is not « inside » the mind or body - it’s in between the body and the world! The dynamic coupling between bodily movements & bodily actions in the world are fundamental in constructing and maintaining a coherent sense of self www.mdpi.com/2076-328X/15...

Join us this week for our first international dissociation research conference! Free, online and featuring some fantastic keynote speakers with talks taking place across 3 time-zones! Register here: disconnected-network.com/2025-online-...

🆕Study Alert! King’s College London: Transdiagnostic Dissociative Symptoms 🔗 www.unrealcharity.com/kings-transd... ✉️ TRIAD@kcl.ac.uk or contact @susannahpick.bsky.social #DepersonalisationDerealisationDisorder #DPDR #Depersonalisation #Derealisation #MentalHealthResearch

👀Are you interested in the causal effects of #dissociation on #intrusions and #memory? Or are you looking for a method to experimentally induce dissociation? ➡️Check out our new preprint doi.org/10.31234/osf... on a #preregistered experiment in 213 healthy participants🤗 @disconnected-ecr.bsky.social🧵

Honored and grateful to receive the Elfriede Dietrich Foundation 2025 Research Promotion Prize for my research on acute #dissociation! 🤗✨ I am excited to continue exploring strategies to counteract acute #depersonalisation & #derealisation in #PTSD and #BPD. 🔬✨ @disconnected-ecr.bsky.social

Chair of Clinical and Biological Psychology and Psychotherapy@klips-unima.bsky.social · last yr.

Congratulations @sarahdanboeck.bsky.social ! 🎉✨ Our colleague Dr. Sarah Danböck was awarded the Elfriede Dietrich Foundation 2025 Research Promotion Prize for a research project on patients’ and clinicians’ experiences with anti-dissociative skills. www.sowi.uni-mannheim.de/alpers/forsc...

I am delighted this work by @gerardosalvato.bsky.social et al on the relationship between disturbances in the sense of body ownership & temperature regulation is finally published! doi.org/10.1038/s414... Here is a thread on the long, scientific whodunit 1/11

The contribution of cutaneous thermal signals to bodily self-awareness - Nature Communications

Salvato et al. reveal that thermosensory signals may play a role in bodily self-awareness. Their study on right-brain stroke patients highlights behavioural and neural contribution of temperature and ...

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Gerardo Salvato@gerardosalvato.bsky.social · 2y ago

Cold hands, altered ownership? We link disturbed body ownership in stroke patients to reduced hand temperature and impaired thermoception. The right Insula & Parietal hubs are key players. We are excited to share our new findings @naturecomms.bsky.social ▶️ rdcu.be/d5SDU

Forgot to share our latest publication (which I’m thrilled about) here: www.researchgate.net/publication/... We aimed to understand helpful and meaningful aspects of the TOP DD Network program, a program to treat complex dissociative disorders. Check it out!

(PDF) Helpful and meaningful aspects of a psychoeducational programme to treat complex dissociative disorders: a qualitative approach

PDF | Purpose: Complex dissociative disorders (CDDs) are prevalent among psychotherapy clients, and research suggests carefully paced treatment for CDDs... | Find, read and cite all the research you n...

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Slowly but surely making my return to this platform, and I’m going to start by announcing a new publication! In this thematic analysis, we explored therapists’ experiences of working with clients with DID. Check it out! Open access here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

⏰ Today's the day: please register today (anywhere on earth) if you plan to join us. Very much looking forward to seeing you there!

Michael Gaebler@michaelgaebler.com · 2y ago

📣 Come join us for the #MindBrainBody Symposium 2025! 📆 March 10-12, 2025 📍 Berlin & online 🔎 mindbrainbody.de Keynotes: - Ivan de Araujo - Nadine Gogolla - Maria Ribeiro @ribeironeuro.bsky.social - Markus Ullsperger - Tor Wager - Veronica Witte @veronicawitte.bsky.social #interoception

Happy to share our new paper on the inhibition of memory retrieval in dissociative amnesia, with @dcdace.bsky.social, Hirokazu Kikuchi, Nobuhito Abe &, Jun Kawaguchi, Mike Kopelman & @memorycontrol.bsky.social doi.org/10.1017/S003...