Hi everyone,

So I'm starting to read " Coping with Trauma related dissociation" book. In it there is a particular focus on DID (Dissociative Identify Disorder previously known as Multiple personality disorder) and past trauma and abuse.

To my current understanding, CPTSD is an attachment disorder, we can't relate to ourselves and others in wholesome way. We also have developmental arrests, or a disowned parts that we need to integrate to experience ourselves fully.

The definition of the dissociation in the book suggests that " it also leaves one or more parts of the self stuck in unresolved experiences and another part forever trying to avoid these unintegrated experiences". It also defines dissociation as something contrasted with " integration; viewing ourselves as a whole and not fragmented.

I'm more confused now, because dissociation in the past was to me when I gravitate to the unhealthy aspect of the Freeze response.

Is CPTSD regarded as an attachment disorder or dissociative disorder, or both?