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Exploring the Role of Dissociation Dimensions in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 March 2020

A. Pozza*
Affiliation:
University of Florence, Department of Experimental and Clinical Medicine, Florence, Italy
N. Giaquinta
Affiliation:
Centre of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy CTCC, Centre of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapy CTCC, Florence, Italy
D. Dèttore
Affiliation:
University of Florence, Department of Health Sciences, Florence, Italy
*
* Corresponding author.

Abstract

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Introduction

In the last decade, accumulating evidence has been produced on the role of dissociation in Obsessive Compulsive Disorder (OCD). Understanding which dissociation dimensions are specific to OCD could suggest the integration of therapeutic strategies for dissociation in the treatment of patients with OCD.

Objectives

The current study explored the role of dissociation in a sample of patients with OCD, patients with anxiety disorders and healthy controls with the aim to understand which dissociation dimensions could be specific to OCD.

Method

One hundred seventy-one participants were included in the study (56% females, mean age = 35.96, SD = 12.61), of which 52 were patients with primary OCD, 59 were patients with Anxiety Disorders (AD), and 60 were healthy controls. The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES), Beck Depression Inventory-II (BDI-II), Beck Anxiety Inventory (BAI), Yale-Brown Obsessive Compulsive Scale (Y-BOCS) were administered.

Results

Patients with OCD had significantly higher dissociative amnesia symptoms than patients with AD and health controls (F = 6.08, P < 0.01) and higher depersonalization/derealization symptoms than healthy controls but not than patients with AD. Patients with OCD did not report significantly higher dissociative absorption than healthy controls and patients with AD.

Conclusions

Strategies targeting dissociative amnesia and depersonalization/derealization symptoms in OCD are discussed. Future studies should examine which OCD subtypes are more strongly associated to dissociation dimensions.

Disclosure of interest

The authors have not supplied their declaration of competing interest.

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Copyright
Copyright © European Psychiatric Association 2016
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