In December MD was featured in Lifehacker, a weblog about software and life hacks (skills, or novelty methods that increase productivity and efficiency). The story by Emily Long was titled: “The Difference Between Normal and Maladaptive Daydreaming”.
Lifehacker is known for its fast-paced release schedule from its inception, with content being published every half hour all day long. The Lifehacker motto is "Tips, tricks, and downloads for getting things done." Lifehacker has four international editions in the USA, Australia, Japan, and the UK.
ICMDR’s Scientific director, Dr. Nirit Soffer-Dudek was interviewed about MD for PopSugar by Maggie Ryan in a story titled: “If You Can Fantasize For Hours, There's a Name For That: Maladaptive Daydreaming”.
PopSugar is a pop culture website featuring lifestyle content targeted towards women 18–34, across topics such as entertainment, fashion, health, fitness, food, and parenting, on mobile, video, and social media.
Dr. Emily Christensen produces an award-winning podcast titled, System Speak. She does so under the pseudonym of Emma Sunshaw. Diagnosed with Dissociative Identity Disorder at age 36, Emma and her system share what they learn along the way about DID, dissociation, trauma, and mental health.
Educational, supportive, inclusive, and inspiring, System Speak documents her healing journey through the best and worst of life in recovery through insights, conversations, and collaborations. The podcast also features interviews with trauma and dissociation scholars and clinicians and airs in 64 countries around the world. In Emma’s latest podcast she talked with Eli Somer on different online communities of “plurals”, including people with MD. This podcast dovetailed her new paper titled “The Online Community: DID and Plurality” and addressed the paper “Reality shifting: psychological features of an emergent online daydreaming culture” published by Prof. Somer and his colleagues. The podcast can be listened to on Google Podcast and Spotify, as well as on the System Speak website.
ICMDR's mission to provide information about MD to Generation Z consumers has motivated us to add informational videos that are less than 3 minutes long and can be uploaded to TikTok. Here is a recent example featuring information on How to improve control over MD.
ICMDR congratulates Dr. Amy Lucas for her newly awarded title of Doctor of Clinical Psychology.
Amy submitted her dissertation to Canterbury Christ Church University in the UK. Her research manuscript was titled “Understanding the lived experience of maladaptive daydreaming” and is currently publicly available at her university’s research space repository. Congratulations, Amy!
Someone who is recruiting participants for her thesis on MD is Maastricht University student Pia Breuer. Pia is looking for respondents who understand written German and Dutch. If you qualify, please contact Pia at pia.breuer@student.maastrichtuniversity.nl
MD Researchers in Brazil will now be able to employ the high-quality translation of the MDS-16 into Brazilian Portuguese (Português sul Americano).
The translation process was led by ICMDR’s Dr. Ramiro Figueiredo Catelan, head of the Center for Maladaptive Daydreaming and Emotion Dysregulation Research at the Institute of Psychiatry, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
Last but certainly not least is a new MD research publication by Italian and American researchers, titled “Maladaptive Daydreaming in Relation to Linguistic Features and Attachment Style”.
The paper was published in December by the International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health. One of the co-authors is ICMDR's Dr. Alessandro Musetti.
On behalf of all ICMDR researchers, we wish you a very safe and happy 2022.
Happy New year everyone!
