... the factors that are believed to develop into, and mediate them have received scant empirical scrutiny (Irwin, 1998). Thus in order to try and understand the factors involved in the development of dissociative experiences, it is important to look at that research which exists, and also to evaluate it. By doing so we can decide how reliable current findings are, and more importantly how researches could be developed in order to give a more comprehensive and accurate account of dissociative experience development. The first research is Affective Predictors of Dissociation II: Shame and Guilt by H.J. Irwin (1998). Its was to examine whether shame and guilt may act as a mediator between childhood traumas and reliance on a dissociative coping style. Irwin chose to on shame and guilt as they have been shown to be the most common resulting tendencies of childhood trauma (particularly Childhood Sexual Abuse, or C.S.A.) (Lewis, ...

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