can you give me some people besides Cybil and Eve on the web to do research on?
2006-12-20 00:51:40 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Health ➔ Mental Health
Multiple Personality Disorder got a name change in the early 90s to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Try looking that up on the web, and you may find some things. I have done my master's paper on treatment efficacy for DID, and am currently looking at how transference and counter transference affect the therapeutic relationship when working with clients with DID. Is it real is a loaded question. Some people believe that it is a legitimate diagnosis, and others believe that this diagnosis is the client trying to agree with the therapist, so they invent and then believe in their different personalities. Some say that even if the client does have different personalities due only to the therapist that this may still be a helpful step to whatever was bothering them from before. (Basically DID may be better than having no way to deal with problems). Anyway, hope that is helpful.
Also, there is a wing at Sheppard-Pratt in Maryland that works with DID clients, so you may check their website.
VERY IMPORTANT- DID IS NOT THE SAME AS SCHIZOPHRENIA. THEY ARE NOT REALLY EVEN THAT CLOSE.
2006-12-20 02:32:57 · answer #1 · answered by Bag-A-Donuts 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
It is real, but not NEAR as common as people think. A lot of criminals try to fake it, but it is nearly impossible to do so. The overwhelming majority of this disorder are female and who have suffered monstrous sexual abuse from childhood.
2006-12-20 08:16:23 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 0⤋
Its absolutely real. Ive seen various programs on it in the discovery channel; even showing videos of ppl changing from one person into another in some serious cases.
2006-12-20 02:52:01 · answer #3 · answered by Lord Of Lust 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yep. not as frequently occurring as some may have you ever trust, although. that's not extremely dissimilar personalities, interior the experience of the medical rationale of the note personality. that's fragmented personality. The fragments are results of fissures and ruptures of the psyche from outdoors pressure.
2016-12-01 00:08:48 · answer #4 · answered by ? 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
Yes. I have been diagnosed and have 2 distinct personalities. #2 we don't like because she is a bad, bad girl. #1 is fine as long as she stays on her meds!
2006-12-20 02:14:18 · answer #5 · answered by Terrigrrl 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
its real....i have watched a friend from a DBT therapy group change personalities...from that of a grown woman to a little girl....
it is kind of terrifying to watch really.....
2006-12-20 02:34:11 · answer #6 · answered by myheartisjames 5 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Yup, look it up.
http://psychologydoc.com/multiple_personality.htm
http://www.multiple-personality.com/
And no, it's not technically the same as schizophrenia, although the literal definitions are the same.
2006-12-20 00:59:53 · answer #7 · answered by kingoomieiii 3 · 1⤊ 1⤋
Yep, check out the movie/book 'Sybil.'
2006-12-20 01:34:53 · answer #8 · answered by Becca 2 · 0⤊ 1⤋
yes its called schizophrenia. =)
2006-12-20 01:00:38 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 4⤋