Category: Dissociative Identity Disorder

It is quite unfortunate that a majority of persons living in the world have encountered childhood traumas which often led to this long term mental health situation known as the Dissociative Identity Disorder. Formerly known as the multiple personality disorder, this mental health situation has been known to cause an alteration in the accurate recalling…

The area of interest I chose to base my research project on is dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder. It is recognized as a complex psychological disorder, characterized by possessing two or more distinct and separate personalities, which are termed alter types or states that appear outside ones conscious control. Each…

Sigmund Freud says The individual does actually carry on a double existence: one designed to serve his own purposes and another as a link in a chain, in which he serves against, or at any rate without, any volition of his own. Meaning that we have our own true self and then another self when…

Introduction Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is a serious mental disorder which can be diagnosed in a patient with at least two split and distinct personalities within him. The mental disorder has been known as hiddenness disease and its availability frequency is higher than other mental illnesses. Most patients with DID report experiencing physical and sexual…

The complex disorder when a single individual has two or more personalities within themselves is known as dissociative identity disorder (DID). Victims of this disorder have alternate personalities that are also called subpersonalities, this means that a single individual has two or more personalities within themselves. Alternate personalities are never the same, as they can…

Dissociative Identity Disorder: it is defined as a dissociative disorder in which a person reports having more than one identity or alter. Those diagnosed report to have more than one identity or alter. Each alter presents with individual characteristics. Each alter presents at different times and is determined by the alter in charge. The primary…

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) has a long history, it was first discovered in 1791 when a woman was found to have both a French and a German personality. Many studies were completed between 1880 and 1920 and by 1944 it was reported that 67% of DID patients had been discovered. Dissociative identity disorder then fell…

In the 1800s; Dr. Jean-Martin Charcot has discovered a new disease. He called the diseases hydro- epilepsy. By the name, she believed that the two existing mental illnesses; hysteria and epilepsy were combined to make a new disease. Later, Scientists studied more into the diseases and renamed it multiple personality disorder. At first, the symptoms…

This research investigates whether the Memory Malingering Test (TOMM) could identify individuals with psychiatric dissociative identity disorder (DID) from students who are coached with DID malingering. Amnesia is a distinctive symptom of DID. Analyzes showed that TOMM ratings correctly classified medical and malingering DID subjects and that simulators were not capable of malingering DID. This…

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) involves problems with memory, identity, emotion, perception, behavior, and sense of self. Dissociation is when there is [an involuntary and unwanted] disconnection between a person’s thoughts, memories, feelings, actions or sense of who he or she is (cite source). This is a condition where a person has two or more alter…