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Psychiatry and Clinical Neurosciences 2008; 62: 540–547
doi:10.1111/j.1440-1819.2008.01847.x
Regular Article
Childhood emotional abuse, dissociation, and suicidality among patients with drug dependency in Turkey Defne Tamar-Gurol, MD,1* Vedat Sar, Mustafa Karagoz, MD1
MD,2
Figen Karadag,
MD,3
Cuneyt Evren,
MD1
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Research, Treatment and Training Center for Alcohol and Substance Dependence (AMATEM) and Neurosis Clinic, Bakirkoy Training and Research Hospital for Psychiatric and Neurological Diseases, 2Clinical Psychotherapy Unit and Dissociative Disorders Program, Department of Psychiatry, Medical Faculty of Istanbul, Istanbul University and 3Alcohol and Drug Dependence Unit, Maltepe University Medical Faculty, Psychiatry Department, Istanbul, Turkey
Aim: The aim of the present study was to determine the prevalence and correlates of dissociative disorders among patients with drug dependency. Methods: The Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) was used to screen 104 consecutive patients at an addiction treatment center. Thirty-seven patients who had scores ⱖ30 were compared with 21 patients who scored 30 or 30. Thirty-nine of them (81.3%) were men and nine (18.7%) were women, these rates were 52 (92.9%) and four (7.1%) for the remaining, respectively; that is, there was no significant differences in gender distribution for a high scorer or not (c2 = 3.18, d.f. = 1, P = 0.074). Thirty-seven (77.1%) of the 48 patients with scores >30 and 21 (87.5%) of the 24 patients with scores
