"People read about
dissociative identity disorder and multiple personalities and find it a bit freaky.
A survey of practices and recommended treatment interventions among expert therapists treating patients with
dissociative identity disorder and dissociative disorder not otherwise specified.
Similarly, the Guidelines for Treating
Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults (ISSTD, 2011) fail to address the topic of sexual orientation.
The woman said she is now on disability for depression, anxiety and bulimia, but had never been diagnosed by a licensed mental health professional as suffering from
dissociative identity disorder.
Waking chronicles the attempts of one woman, stricken by
dissociative identity disorder, to pull together the unraveling threads of her life by locking herself away for 30 days following a botched suicide attempt.
Cardena, 2008) and lower than mean scores reported for individuals with a diagnosis of
dissociative identity disorder (M = 40.7-57.1; cf.
Understanding and treating
dissociative identity disorder; a relational approach.
Among the psychiatric disorders most commonly confused with possession are schizophrenia, bipolar disorder, personality disorders, and
dissociative identity disorder, formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder.
The other reason for interest in dissociation was the formulation of a disorder, which was initially called multiple personality disorder and then
Dissociative Identity Disorder. It was in 1980 that the diagnostic criteria of this disorder were included in DSM-III (Bob, 2004).
During my clinical experience as a psychiatrist, I have had the opportunity to work with several patients with dissociative disorders, including
dissociative identity disorder.