Can anyone recommend...

[Angelwings]

A good book on the full spectrum of disassociative disorders? All I can find are books on DID.

 

[Angelwings]

Never mind. My therapist said that my dissociating was PTSD related, and therefore carries the diagnosis of PTSD, not some dissociative disorder.

 

[Hope4Now]

Coping with Trauma-related Dissociation. It's a workbook with a lot of good information. Talks about DID and DID-NOS, but really just focuses on strategies for coping and healing...not diagnostically oriented, but practical.

 

[Deleted member 1860]

You'd think that there would be SOMETHING out there on the full spectrum of dissociation given that it ranges from normal people dissociation (ie daydreaming or zoning out in the car) through PTSD on to DDNOS and then ultimately DID. My bet is that there is something out there, but it may be geared toward professionals. (And while those books aren't all bad, they can be a bit technical and harder to digest.)

 

[amy4k]

Being that something like 85% of people diagnosed with a dissociative disorder are also diagnosed with PTSD, these two disorders are closely related. Two books that i have found that discuss this relationship and the various diagnosis of dissociative disorders are "The Stranger in the Mirror", written by the woman who helped to develop the SCID-D, which is the primary tool to diagnosis dissociation. The other is "Rebuilding Shattered Lives: Treating Complex PTSD and Dissociative Disorders" by James Chu a doctor who has treated dissociative and trauma patients at McClean Hospital in Boston. This is one of the premier hospitals for trauma disorders in the United States. I have been diagnosed with DID, but these two books have been very helpful in understanding all the different types of dissociation I do experience.