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Existing interventions often prioritise reducing arousal over promoting safety and self-soothing, tending to neglect the bodily experience.<\/jats:p>\n\t  <\/jats:sec>\n\t  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472425100720_as2\">\n\t    <jats:title>Aims<\/jats:title>\n\t    <jats:p>This randomised clinical within-person pilot study examined the effects of the nest position, a physiotherapeutic intervention designed to enhance safety and self-soothing, on patients with dissociative disorders and healthy controls (German Clinical Trials Register No.: DRKS00030669).<\/jats:p>\n\t  <\/jats:sec>\n\t  <jats:sec id=\"S2056472425100720_as3\">\n\t    <jats:title>Method<\/jats:title>\n\t    <jats:p>Eighteen patients with dissociative disorders and 18 healthy controls alternated between the nest position and a neutral supine position across two rounds of a measurement session. The order of the experimental conditions (nest position or supine only) was randomised for each participant. 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