Table 2.

Cultural presentation of dissociative disorders

Dissociative experience	Presentation in Eastern culture	Presentation in Western culture
Splitting of consciousness	Dissociative trance	Depersonalization
Splitting of identity	Possession trance with external control	Dissociative identity disorder
Splitting of memory	More likely in possession trance than dissociative trance	Dissociative amnesia
Loss of somatic control	Dissociative trance, e.g., lata	Conversion disorder
Treatment	Role of faith healer who enters trance to combat the spirit	Therapist resolves dissociation with hypnosis/therapy