What parent-child dynamics have the highest risk for a dissociative disorder?

In this video Dr Mary-Anne Kate describes the characteristics of the dynamics between the parent and child that are predictive of developing a dissociative disorder.

A pre-print of the article is available:

[Scott-twhm]

As a person who has suffered from dissociative experiences for decades and has been formally diagnosed with a dissociative disorder, this seems to me a most valuable line of research. I think that the day-to-day parent-child dynamics can be a very strong driver of dissociatice conditions. I don't recollect any events in my life that could be characterised as major traumas. But I was consistently nullified and shamed by my parents, and isolated from my peers due to thevinvolvement of my family in a fundamentalust religion. These influences were more than enough to leave me dazed, immobilised, annihilated, and yet also in enormous pain.

Thank you for your work and the level of understanding you are bringing to it.

[tadstoolll]

I've gone undiagnosed for a dissociative disorder for around 3-4 years now. About a year ago my feelings of depersonalization and derealization were chronic. And all while I was researching into dissociation and what causes a dissociative disorder I felt somewhat invalidated because I had never registered a trauma or major event that could have sparked a disorder's development.

This video was extremely helpful! While I wasn't brought up in an inherantly abusive or neglectful place, and was raised by loving parents. I was in an environment where childhood curiosity was curbed as a point and at an age where social development and parental relationships are forged, it does really affect how a person continues to live later in life. As an adult I have found it hard to share my emotions or bring up my own opinions with people because I grew up having myself as my support system. While I don't blame my parents for anything, I do think the stygmatization of mental health and negative emotions in the household definitely impacted me as I went on later in life.

[andrewcook]

Yes - trauma sometimes begets trauma because it can interfere with proper parent-child relationships with absolutely no need for deliberate mistreatment or abuse. It took me about 45 years to understand and look for proper treatment for this. Mother suffered massive post-natal depression and couldn't even look me in the eye (or presumably hold me for long) until about 3 months. That continued through her life (compounded by a miscarriage), manifesting as narcissism plus fairly constant gaslighting (to keep control). The post-natal depression only came out as a throw-away comment in a conversation about 5 years ago - and has helped me to have a more compassionate (though still distant) relationship with her. My father had three head traumas before I was 12 which turned him from a very gentle man into someone who was verbally aggressive and extremely needy. I'm convinced all of that stacked on top of a bucket load of generational trauma in my family from the first world war. Dissociation is very familiar - in fact I've specialised in it (and its obverse, embodiment) in my work as a therapist because I know it so intimately.

[taurath]

Do you see any connection with these early attachment problems and later trauma?

Also how are memory issues among the dissociative population taken into account when doing surveys?

System here - appreciate your work - off to read the article now!

[HealWithDrDV]

Brilliant outlook towards dissociation. Best Regards From India