Dissociation and dissociative disorders reconsidered: Beyond sociocognitive and trauma models toward a transtheoretical framework

SJ Lynn, C Polizzi, H Merckelbach… - Annual Review of …, 2022 - annualreviews.org
For more than 30 years, the posttraumatic model (PTM) and the sociocognitive model (SCM)
of dissociation have vied for attention and empirical support. We contend that neither …

Dissociation and its disorders: Competing models, future directions, and a way forward

SJ Lynn, R Maxwell, H Merckelbach… - Clinical psychology …, 2019 - Elsevier
Dissociative experiences and symptoms have sparked intense scrutiny and debate for more
than a century. Two perspectives, the trauma model (TM), which postulates a direct and …

Empirical research on fantasy proneness and its correlates 2000–2018: A meta-analysis.

H Merckelbach, H Otgaar, SJ Lynn - Psychology of Consciousness …, 2022 - psycnet.apa.org
We reviewed articles that appeared between 2000 and 2018 and that addressed fantasy
proneness as measured by the Creative Experiences Questionnaire (CEQ) or the Inventory …

Autobiographical memory and hyperassociativity in the dreaming brain: implications for memory consolidation in sleep

CL Horton, JE Malinowski - Frontiers in psychology, 2015 - frontiersin.org
In this paper we argue that autobiographical memory (AM) activity across sleep and wake
can provide insight into the nature of dreaming, and vice versa. Activated memories within …

Dispelling the shadows of the lucid night: An exploration of potential adverse effects of lucid dreaming.

T Stumbrys - Psychology of Consciousness: Theory, Research, and …, 2023 - psycnet.apa.org
Lucid dreams—dreams in which the dreamer is aware that they are dreaming—are
generally positive and empowering experiences, for which a variety of benefits have been …

The psychology of anomalous experiences: A rediscovery.

E Cardeña, SJ Lynn, S Krippner - Psychology of Consciousness …, 2017 - psycnet.apa.org
This essay presents the rationale to consider anomalous experiences (AEs, such as
synesthesia, lucid dreaming, hallucinations, psi-related experiences, and near-death …

Arousal in nocturnal consciousness: how dream-and sleep-experiences may inform us of poor sleep quality, stress, and psychopathology

N Soffer-Dudek - Frontiers in Psychology, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The term “sleep experiences,” coined by Watson, denotes an array of unusual nocturnal
consciousness phenomena; for example, nightmares, vivid or recurrent dreams, hypnagogic …

No time like the present: Thinking about the past and the future is related to state dissociation among individuals with high levels of psychopathological symptoms

M Vannikov-Lugassi, N Soffer-Dudek - Frontiers in psychology, 2018 - frontiersin.org
Several short-term pathways have been implicated in relation to dissociative experiences,
among them are daily stress, sleepiness, and rumination. In addition, it has been claimed …

Consciousness across sleep and wake: discontinuity and continuity of memory experiences as a reflection of consolidation processes

CL Horton - Frontiers in psychiatry, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The continuity hypothesis posits that there is continuity, of some form, between waking and
dreaming mentation. A recent body of work has provided convincing evidence for different …

Out-of-body experience in virtual reality induces acute dissociation.

D van Heugten-van der Kloet, J Cosgrave… - Psychology of …, 2018 - psycnet.apa.org
An established challenge in studying dissociation is developing effective methodologies to
induce dissociative symptomatology in the laboratory. The primary aim of this study was to …