This pdf file may also be of interest because it explores the concepts of dissociation and psychosis in greater depth. It may also touches on issues of trauma, childhood abuse, voice hearing and DID.
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Despite increasing interest in the relationship between trauma and psychosis, relatively
little attention has been paid to the potentially mediating role of dissociation. The
important role dissociative processes may play in the development of psychotic
symptoms is explored below.
Over the past several years, there has been considerable discussion about the relationship
between the diagnosis of schizophrenia and dissociative disorders (and processes). The dramatic decrease of interest in multiple personality and associated disorders at the beginning of the 20th century has been attributed to Bleuler’s 1911 concept of schizophrenia, which substantially broadened Kraepelin’s ‘dementia praecox’ to include a wide range of apparently dissociative phenomena. Indeed, Colin Ross (2004) has recently argued that some of the cases Bleuler described as ‘schizophrenic’ would be considered DID today...
Issues of comorbidity between dissociative, (other) post-traumatic, and psychotic disorders have been the focus of dozens of studies and papers, resulting in proposals for a psychotic subtype of PTSD and a dissociative subtype of schizophrenia, and measures of dissociation and psychoticism have been shown to be highly correlated in numerous populations.
Here, we take a different approach to exploring the apparently close relationship between
dissociation and psychosis. As the broadest definition of psychosis in the DSM-IV is simply all the symptoms of schizophrenia – excluding ‘negative’ symptoms –we decided to examine each of the ‘positive’ symptoms making up this diagnosis and consider the extent to which dissociative processes could be employed to understand them. In addition, we considered whether research findings on cognitive impairment and brain dysfunction in schizophrenia would be consistent with a dissociative interpretation of these symptoms.
Source: Are psychotic symptoms traumatic in origin and dissociative in kind?
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It may be OldSoul, that you can better understand your experiences when measuring them against a dissociative spectrum.