The authors describe the Structured Clinical Interview for DSM-III-R
Dissociative Disorders (SCID-D), which investigates five groups of
dissociative symptoms (amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, identity
confusion, and identity alteration) and systematically rates both the
severity of individual symptoms and the evaluation of overall diagnosis of
dissociative disorder. Preliminary findings from a study of 48 subjects
with and without psychiatric diagnoses indicate good to excellent
reliability and discriminant validity for the SCID-D as a diagnostic
instrument for the five dissociative disorders and as a tool for the
evaluation of dissociative symptoms encountered within nondissociative
syndromes.
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