“They thought I was just making it up”: Dissociative individuals’ understandings of their dissociation, perceptions of their clinicians’ conceptualizations of dissociation, and discrepancies between them.

Dissociation is thought to be traumagenic, though this conceptualization is not without misunderstanding and stigma. There is little research regarding people's conceptualizations of their dissociative experiences and client-clinician discrepancies in understanding dissociation.