Are psychotic symptoms traumatic in origin and dissociative in kind

Abstract

of a paper presented at the 22nd ISSD conference, Toronto, November 2005. Based on a chapter in Dissociation and the Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond, Paul Dell and John O’Neill, Eds. (submitted for publication).Chapter coauthors: John Read, Susie Farrelly, Thom Rudegeair and Ondra Williams. While there is an entrenched clinical belief that ‘dissociative’ voices differ from ‘psychotic’ voices... there is no compelling evidence that this is so.