Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology Quotes

“The lifetime prevalence of dissociative disorders among women in a general urban Turkish community was 18.3%, with 1.1% having DID (ar, Akyüz, & Doan, 2007). In a study of an Ethiopian rural community, the prevalence of dissociative rural community, the prevalence of dissociative disorders was 6.3%, and these disorders were as prevalent as mood disorders (6.2%), somatoform disorders (5.9%), and anxiety disorders (5.7%) (Awas, Kebede, & Alem, 1999). A similar prevalence of ICD-10 dissociative disorders (7.3%) was reported for a sample of psychiatric patients from Saudi Arabia (AbuMadini & Rahim, 2002).”
― Paul H Blaney, Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology

“Despite the growing clinical and research interest in dissociative symptoms and disorders, it is also true that the substantial prevalence rates for dissociative disorders are still disproportional to the number of studies addressing these conditions.
For example, schizophrenia has a reported rate of 0.55% to 1% of the normal population (Goldner, Hus, Waraich, & Somers, more or less similar to the prevalence of DID. Yet a PubMed search generated 25,421 papers on research related to schizophrenia, whereas only 73 publications were found for DID-related research.”
― Paul H Blaney, Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology

“DID is misrepresented in the ICD-10 as a rare disorder. The prevalence of DID found in community samples was between 0.4% (Akyuz, Dogan, Sar, Yargic, & Tutkun, 1999) and 1.5% (Johnson, Cohen, Kasen, & Brook, 2006), whereas its prevalence in psychiatric samples falls in the range of 1 % (Rifkin, Ghisalbert, Dimatou, Jin, & Sethi, 1998), and 2% (Friedl & Draijer, 2000), to 5.4% (Tutkun et al., 1998) and 6% (Foote et al., 2006). One North American study found a prevalence of 12% (Latz, Kramer, & Hughes, 1995). Although the latter finding is exceptional and possibly due to site-specific ascertainment biases, it seems safe to conclude that the prevalence of the disorder is probably at least as high as that of schizophrenia, which is not a rare disorder.”
― Paul H. Blaney, Oxford Textbook of Psychopathology