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About Marlene Steinberg:

Marlene Steinberg is a renowned researcher on Dissociation symptoms and disorders. She developed the pioneering: The Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-IV Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D) and wrote in conjunction with Maxine Schnall, The Stranger In The Mirror Dissociation - The Hidden Epidemic.
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Identity confusion is defined by the SCID-D as a subjective feeling of uncertainty, puzzlement, or conflict about one's own identity. Patients who report histories of childhood trauma characteristically describe themes of ongoing inner struggle regar...

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Escape from reality. In some instances, dissociation induces people to imagine that they have some kind of mastery over intractable environmental difficulties. Dissociation is often implicated in magical thinking or self-induced trance states. This a...

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Isolation of catastrophic experiences. Dissociation may function to seal off overwhelming trauma into a compartmentalized area of conscious until the person is better able to integrate it into mainstream consciousness. The function of dissociation is...

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Author Bio

  • NameMarlene Steinberg
  • DescriptionAmerican psychologist
  • CountryUnited States Of America
  • ProfessionPsychologist