Advances in Assessment: The Differential Diagnosis of Dissociative Identity Disorder and Schizophrenia

Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation: Emerging Perspectives on Severe Psychopathology

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 177-189

  Steinberg, Marlene ^a   Siegel, Harold D ^a  

^a NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

'voices' in DID appropriate content without delusions or bizarreness; DES and the SCID D tests; DES screening test; DID patients and higher dissociative symptom scores; Differentiating DID from schizophrenia; Dissociative Disorders Interview Schedule (DDIS); Dissociative experiences scale (DES); Dissociative identity disorder (DID); Overlapping symptoms and schizophrenia and DID features; Semi structured diagnostic tool: The SCID D

Indexed keywords

EID: 84862289196     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470699652.ch13     Document Type: Chapter

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