The medical community stopped using " multiple personality disorder" and started calling it " disociative identity disorder" Why?
2006-12-21 14:43:40 · 3 answers · asked by Kathy W 1 in Health ➔ Mental Health
The words "Dissociative Identity Disorder" describe what is going on and possibly why that happens better that the outdated terminology of multiple personalities.
2006-12-21 16:06:30 · answer #1 · answered by doug k 5 · 0⤊ 0⤋
In Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders-IV (American Psychiatric Association, 1994), Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) was changed to Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), reflecting changes in professional understanding of the disorder resulting from significant empirical research.
2006-12-21 22:51:45 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
The medical community started seeing dissociation as a continuum, with DID being on the extreme end.
2006-12-21 22:58:44 · answer #3 · answered by Jen 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋