Essays on Dissociative Identity

King’s College London (2016) published a study that argued that Multiple Personality Disorder or more popularly known as Disassociate Personality Disorder is rooted from traumatic experiences. These experiences include child abuse and neglect. This notion is in contrast with the earlier belief that the disorder is linked to suggestibility or proneness to fantasy (King’s College London, 2016). The report n the controversial disorder came recently as experts attempt to give explanation to complex mental disorder (Harper, 2011). Currently, there are two existing motions about what is the cause of the disorder- non-trauma related view and the recent ...

Psychopathologies, also known as psychological disorders have become a growing concern in the society. The more modernized the world becomes, the greater the need of illuminating just how necessary it is to try to understand the roots of mental illness and situations that may cause mental disturbance. The media has played a great role in trying to bring out case studies in form of documentaries, television series, movies and even books and stories. However, there is still much more to be done in terms of creating awareness when it comes to these mental diseases, which by the way can ...

Article Abstracts

Boysen, G.A. & VanBergen, A.

Abstract

Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) has long been surrounded by controversy due to disagreement about its etiology and the validity of its associated phenomena. Researchers have conducted studies comparing people diagnosed with DID and people simulating DID in order to better understand the disorder. The current research presents a systematic review of this DID simulation research. The literature consists of 20 studies and contains several replicated findings. Replicated differences between the groups include symptom presentation, identity presentation, and cognitive processing deficits. Replicated similarities between the groups include interidentity transfer of information as shown by measures of ...