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Reported History of Physical and Sexual Abuse in Relation to Dissociation and Other Symptomatology in Women Psychiatric Inpatients

Dartmouth Medical School

MARGARET HALPERT

Brattleboro Retreat

Among 88 women patients in an adult inpatient setting, 81% reported a history of sexual abuse physical abuse, or both. The scores on the Dissociative Experiences Scale (DES) and on the anxiety, hostility, and psychoticism scales of the Symptom Checklist 90-Revised (SCL 90-R) early in hospitalization were significantly higher among those who reported a history of abuse than among those who reported no such history. Also, those with a DSM-III-R diagnosis of a dissociative disorder had significantly higher scores on the DES. Reported abuse also was associated with higher scores on the borderline, antisocial, schizoid, and self-defeating personality disorder scales of the Personality Disorder Questionnaire (PDQ-R).

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