ABSTRACT
Both clinical work and research in assessment, in a variety of ways, are intimately related to prevailing theories of personality and theories of psychopathology. Thus, in concert with more recent views of psychopathology, it is not surprising that many in assessment are increasingly turning their attention to the concept of dissociation and its psychopathological manifestations—the dissociative disorders. Interest in the dissociative disorders has increased so dramatically that it threatens to supplant our earlier interest of a decade ago in the borderline disorder and borderline phenomena.
