SINTOMI E PROCESSI DISSOCIATIVI NEI DISTURBI PSICOPATOLOGICI: UN INDICE DI SEVERITÀ.

In recent years interest in dissociative phenomena has been growing steadily, both in the are of pathology related to trauma as well as in the study of the mental processes involved in various psychopathological conditions. This study aims to explore the relatioship between dissociative symptoms and other symptom areas. Our hypothesis is that a greater extent of dissociative phenomena is associated with having a larger variety of serious symptoms. To this end, we used the DES scale to measure and assess dissociative phenomena and scales SCL-90 R and BDI to measure the general psychpathology and in particular depressive features. The sample consisted of 263 patients admitted to a psychiatric ward of a nursing home because of problems related to depression and partly due to difficulties in managing their acting out impulse. The data analysis shows that patients with high scores on the scale of dissociation display significantly different symptom profiles, more serious and varied, compared to patients with low scores on the dossociative scale. In addition, we not that these same patients are hospitalized more often for problems related to impulsive acts and for presenting a diagnostic profile within the parameters of personality disorders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]