If for some unfathomable reason, you don& #39;t want to read my ~80,000 word thesis (what do you mean, the pubs are open?), then please enjoy this Twitter thread version instead... https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😉" title="Zwinkerndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Zwinkerndes Gesicht"> https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🧵" title="Thread" aria-label="Emoji: Thread">
Chp1: Intro. #Dissociation is routinely overlooked because of its bumpy history in clinical circles & significant confusion about what it *is*. It& #39;s especially common in #psychosis where there is reason to believe it might actively contribute to psychotic symptoms (e.g. paranoia)
Thesis aims:
1) Decide a working definition of #dissociation
2) Test idea that it might contribute to psychotic experiences
3) Start the process of identifying psychological factors that might underlie dissociation (crucial for developing future psychological treatments)

GO!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🚀" title="Rakete" aria-label="Emoji: Rakete">
Chp3: Systematic review of existing research suggests the strangeness people described before may be https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🔑" title="Schlüssel" aria-label="Emoji: Schlüssel">

The chapter outlines a working definition: dissociative experiences involving a #FeltSenseofAnomaly & develops a shiny questionnaire to measure it!

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👇" title="Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten" aria-label="Emoji: Rückhand Zeigefinger nach unten"> https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/authors?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0247037">https://journals.plos.org/plosone/a...
Chp5: Time to start thesis aim 2.

Network analyses of data from ~6900 online survey participants suggests that (FSA) #dissociation does have a direct relationship to #psychosis, & likely in the way we expected.

Confusing result for #sleep though https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🤔" title="Denkendes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Denkendes Gesicht"> https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0022395620309341?via%3Dihub">https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/a...
Chp 6: Time to start thesis aim 3.

Network analyses of data from ~6000 (different!) survey participants suggests emotion tolerance factors might be involved in dissociation (less so factors to do with attention). Our old friend & #39;cognitive appraisals& #39; looks key.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="⏳" title="Sanduhr mit fließendem Sand" aria-label="Emoji: Sanduhr mit fließendem Sand">Paper in prep!
Chp 7: Putting it all together.

Network analyses of data from ~900 NHS patients with # psychosis diagnoses largely confirms the findings in the previous two chapters (especially wrt hallucinations).

(FSA) dissociation was common in this group, too.

Paper in prep https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="✍" title="Schreibende Hand" aria-label="Emoji: Schreibende Hand">
Chp8 (still with me?)

Conclusions: a lot still to do, but maybe this way of approaching the complicated problem of dissociation could be helpful? Epecially in psychosis?

Plus summaries, theory-practice links, future research suggestions & all that good stuff.

https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎇" title="Feuerwerk Wunderkerze" aria-label="Emoji: Feuerwerk Wunderkerze">The End!https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🎆" title="Feuerwerk" aria-label="Emoji: Feuerwerk">
With thanks again to:
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟡" title="Gelber Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Gelber Kreis"> @EBeierl, @ItsAStatLife & @DrJCBird for stats brilliance
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟡" title="Gelber Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Gelber Kreis"> @Andrewmolodyns1 & many others for CRN excellence
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟡" title="Gelber Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Gelber Kreis"> @ProfDFreeman & Anke Ehlers for superb academic supervision
https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🟡" title="Gelber Kreis" aria-label="Emoji: Gelber Kreis"> @drlouisecjohns & @AmybHardy for clinical supervision wizardry
& MANY more! https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🙏" title="Gefaltete Hände" aria-label="Emoji: Gefaltete Hände">
Emma out.

(If you were paying attention, you& #39;ll get this joke https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="😉" title="Zwinkerndes Gesicht" aria-label="Emoji: Zwinkerndes Gesicht">)
Whoops. One more tweet.

As the kids say these days: not me forgetting to thank my funder(!)

This work was all funded by a @wellcometrust Clinical Doctoral Fellowship, via @UniofOxford. Specifically @OxPsychiatry.

So, hooray! all the papers are open access https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="👍🏼" title="Daumen hoch (mittelheller Hautton)" aria-label="Emoji: Daumen hoch (mittelheller Hautton)">https://abs.twimg.com/emoji/v2/... draggable="false" alt="🥳" title="Partying face" aria-label="Emoji: Partying face">
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