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Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia
Epidemiologic and etiological studies of dissociative disorders are a challenging area in psychiatry. These challenges become more complex when noting that the existing theories cannot explain the differences observed in certain cases; for example, studies in Iran have reported the prevalence of dis...
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Psychiatry & Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8725185/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35082859 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijps.v16i4.7234 |
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description | Epidemiologic and etiological studies of dissociative disorders are a challenging area in psychiatry. These challenges become more complex when noting that the existing theories cannot explain the differences observed in certain cases; for example, studies in Iran have reported the prevalence of dissociative disorders (dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, and depersonalization disorder) as less than 0.6%, and there has been no reported case of dissociative identity disorder (DID) in this country; meanwhile, the prevalence of all dissociative disorders in the general population of the US has been reported as 18.3%, and the prevalence of DID as about 1.1%. Although several studies indicate the high prevalence of dissociative symptoms in many Iranian psychiatric illnesses, dissociative disorders as a stand-alone disorder have a very low prevalence in Iran. The present article attempts to propose a possible hypothesis for the answer to the above questions through a different cultural conceptualization and seeks to be of some help to future studies in this area. Certainly, this hypothesis requires a careful study to be validated. |
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spelling | pubmed-87251852022-01-25 Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia Seddigh, Ruohollah Iran J Psychiatry Review Article Epidemiologic and etiological studies of dissociative disorders are a challenging area in psychiatry. These challenges become more complex when noting that the existing theories cannot explain the differences observed in certain cases; for example, studies in Iran have reported the prevalence of dissociative disorders (dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, and depersonalization disorder) as less than 0.6%, and there has been no reported case of dissociative identity disorder (DID) in this country; meanwhile, the prevalence of all dissociative disorders in the general population of the US has been reported as 18.3%, and the prevalence of DID as about 1.1%. Although several studies indicate the high prevalence of dissociative symptoms in many Iranian psychiatric illnesses, dissociative disorders as a stand-alone disorder have a very low prevalence in Iran. The present article attempts to propose a possible hypothesis for the answer to the above questions through a different cultural conceptualization and seeks to be of some help to future studies in this area. Certainly, this hypothesis requires a careful study to be validated. Psychiatry & Psychology Research Center, Tehran University of Medical Sciences 2021-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8725185/ /pubmed/35082859 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijps.v16i4.7234 Text en Copyright © 2021 Tehran University of Medical Sciences. Published by Tehran University of Medical Sciences. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/). Non-commercial uses of the work are permitted, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Review Article Seddigh, Ruohollah Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia |
title | Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia |
title_full | Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia |
title_fullStr | Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia |
title_full_unstemmed | Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia |
title_short | Dissociative Disorder in the Iranian Culture: The Lawless Utopia |
title_sort | dissociative disorder in the iranian culture: the lawless utopia |
topic | Review Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8725185/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35082859 http://dx.doi.org/10.18502/ijps.v16i4.7234 |
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