Eli Somer
Jan 28, 20191 min
A commentary on a 2018 paper by Colin Ross ("The Potential Relevance of Maladaptive Daydreaming in Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder in Persons With Ritual Abuse and Complex Inner Worlds") was published today in Frontiers in the Psychotherapy of Trauma and Dissociation, the clinical journal of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation. In his commentary, Somer argues that the capacity for absorptive daydreaming could be the psychological infrastructure that may lead, under specific circumstances, to the development of imaginary companions (IC). Somer further postulates that the phenomenon of IC could be a psychological precursor of both maladaptive daydreaming and dissociative identity disorder.