splitpersonailty term paper!?

Question

I am writing a term paper on splitpersonality. I haven't started. I need pics supporting it and like 10 pages on stuff about it. my friend is also doing it on the same topic and i want to make a really goood term paper on splitpersonality. anyone know where to get a nice font for the title or pics or articles/intervies?

Answer 1

Here is some info for you. You will need to put it in your own words because I am typing it straight from my psychology book.

Split personality.... Dissociative identiy disorder: A dissociative disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder, in which an individual develops more than one self or personality.

The "other" personalitys are called alters. The core personality is called the host.

An indivdual who suffers with dissociative idenity disorder has atleast two disticnt identities or personality states, each with its own pattern of perceiving, thinking, and relating, as well with its own style of behavior, personal history, and self image. Most cases involve fewer than 10 identies, but reports range well into the 100's.

The host (primary identity is usually passive and dependent, possibly depressed and guilty. The alters are usually quite different, possibly acting in ways that are hostile, demanding, or self-destructive. They may possibly have different ages, races, levels of intelligence and affective styles, and can even be of different gender.

The transition from one alter to another is ususally sudden, triggered by psychosocial stress or a personally salient stimulus.
Only one alter interacts with the external enviroment, others may actively perceive what is happening or they can influence what is going on. Most of the personalities have a sense of lost or distorted experiences of time and will piece together memories to make up for unaccounted time gaps, or an alter may have access to memorites of the other alters. People with this disorder also experiences a form of amnesia, in which they have gaps in theire memory about some aspecst of their personal history. Some individual have gaps that span years, or even a decade or more.

Psychiatrist Richard Kluft played a major role in disseminating information about dissociative identity disorder. Kluft described the key features as follows...The host personality tends to be depressed, anxious, compulsively "good" masochistic and moralistic. Most frequently seen alters are as follows...childern, "protectors", "helpers", expressers of forbidden impulesed, personalites based on lost loved ones, carriers of lost memorites or familty secrets, avengers who express anger over abusive experiences, and defenders of the abusers (Kluft, 1984a).

People with dissociative identiy disorder fail to develop an intergrated and continuose sense of self, because they were severly traumatized at some point in their childhood. Many, if not most, cleints report of being a victim of childhood sexual or physical abuse.(Ellason, Ross, & Fuchs, 1996; Kluft, 1997;Lewis et al., 1997; Lussier, Steiner, Grey, &Hansen, 1997;Scroppo, Drob, Weinberger & Eagle, 1998; Simeon et al., 2001)

Theorists on the other side of the debate assert tht there is a compelling arguement for the notion that there is a connection between childhood trauma and teh developent of dissociated identity. They contend that perhaps such traumatized childern develop alters as an escape, through fantasy, from the horrors of their daily reality. They learn to enter a dissociative, self hypnotic state filled with fantasy and thoughts of being someone else. Not all childern who are abused suffer from dissociative disorder it's really only a small percentage that does.

Some clinicians have reported that an approach that rests on the notion that dissociative identity disorder is a response to trauma.

The most common treatment is a technique deprived from psychoanalytic psychotherapy, often including hypnotherapy, which is to hypnotize the client and to recall painful memories. They want to bring each alter out one by one. This treatmen is controversal because some believe that this causes more problems. (Cause the emergence of symptoms.)

Diagnostic Features: Two or more distinct identies or personality states, each with an enduring pattern of perceiving, relatin to and thiking aout the enviroment and the self.
At least two of the identies or personalty states recurrently take control of the persons behavior
The person is unable to recall important personal info. well beyond what could be explained by ordinary forgetfulness.
The disturbance is not due to substance or a medical condition.

Look up the name Anne Heche. This is a real story about a person who suffered from dissociative symptoms. She wrote a book called "Call Me Crazy."

Remember to put this in your own words because most of it is straight from the book.

Also you can look up D.S.M. IV. Any site with .gov is realiable info.

The book I used is from fall semester of college 2006. I just finished the class.

Hope this helps

Answer 2

You could get pictures from the various movies that have been done on this subject: Edward Norton fakes it with Richard Gere in Primal Fear; there's Sybil, of course, and many more.
Actually, multiple personalities are very rare, except in the movies. Countries that have movies about it also have a lot more reported cases: people see the movies and believe they have the condition.

Answer 3

There are a few pictures here that you might find useful:

http://ca.search.yahoo.com/search/images?ei=UTF-8&fr=ush2-ca-mail&fr2=sfp&p=split+personality

Answer 4

Try Web MD !

Answer 5

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