{"quotes":[{"text":"With DID patients, if they feel hostility or aggression they take it out on themselves with self-harm... They’re self-destructive and repeatedly suicidal, more so than any other psychological disorder. So that's what's typical – not this wild aggression, or stalking women [or robbery].- Dr Bethany Brand, on Billy Milligan and Multiple Personality Disorder (DID).","author":"Bethany L. Brand","tags":["billy-milligan","dissociative-identity-disorder","insanity","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misconception","misrepresentation","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","self-harm","self-injury","split-personality","stereotypes","stigma","suicidal","suicidality","suicide","the-crowded-room"],"id":28670,"author_id":"Bethany+L.+Brand"},{"text":"State integration involves linkage in at least three different dimensions of our lives. The first level of integration is between our different states—the “inter” dimension. We must accept our multiplicity, the fact that we can show up quite differently in our athletic, intellectual, sexual, spiritual—or many other—states. A heterogeneous collection of states is completely normal in us humans. The key to well-being is collaboration across states, not some rigidly homogeneous unity. The notion that we can have a single, totally consistent way of being is both idealistic and unhealthy.","author":"Daniel J. Siegel","tags":["healthy-multiplicity","integration","multiple-personalities","multiplicity","personality","personality-states"],"id":83583,"author_id":"Daniel+J.+Siegel"},{"text":"It’s hard to imagine a more squarely on-the-nose example of demonizing mental illness than portraying a mentally ill man as a literal demon.","author":"Charles Bramesco","tags":["demonization","demonized","dissociative-identity-disorder","mental-health-stigma","mental-illness","mental-illness-stigma","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","split","split-personalities","stigmatization","stigmatized"],"id":109847,"author_id":"Charles+Bramesco"},{"text":"When experiences or emotions become too overwhlming, the mind clevely encapsulates the material and stores it for safe-keeping. Many people respond this way in the face of trauma, but the additional step that occurs in this process, in the case of DID, is the formation of distinct ego states that carry the experience.","author":"Deborah Bray Haddock","tags":["alter-personalities","compartmentalization","coping","dissociation","dissociative","dissociative-identity-disorder","dissociative-parts","memory-fragmentation","multiple-personalities","ptsd","trauma","traumatic-experiences","traumatized"],"id":128739,"author_id":"Deborah+Bray+Haddock"},{"text":"The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and “dropped” from the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM) of the American Psychiatric Association is false and misleading. Many if not most diagnostic entities have been renamed or have had their names modified as psychiatry changes in its conceptualizations and classifications of mental illnesses. When the DSM decided to go with “Dissociative Identity Disorder” it put “(formerly multiple personality disorder)” right after the new name to signify that it was the same condition. It’s right there on page 526 of DSM-IV-R. There have been four different names for this condition in the DSMs over the course of my career. I was part of the group that developed and wrote successive descriptions and diagnostic criteria for this condition for DSM-III-R, DSM–IV, and DSM-IV-TR.While some patients have been hurt by the impact of material that proves to be inaccurate, there is no evidence that scientifically demonstrates the prevalence of such events. Most material alleged to be false has been disputed by someone, but has not been proven false.Finally, however intriguing the idea of encouraging forgetting troubling material may seem, there is no evidence that it is either effective or safe as a general approach to treatment. There is considerable belief that when such material is put out of mind, it creates symptoms indirectly, from “behind the scenes.” Ironically, such efforts purport to cure some dissociative phenomena by encouraging others, such as Dissociative Amnesia.","author":"Richard P. Kluft","tags":["diagnosis","disinformation","dissociative-amnesia","dissociative-identity-disorder","dsm","evidence","false","hysteria","hysterican-neurosis","mental-disorder","mental-illness","misinformation","misleading","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","psychiatric-bible","psychiatry","rumor"],"id":181347,"author_id":"Richard+P.+Kluft"},{"text":"My own studies on the natural history of DID indicate only 20% of DID patients have an overt DID adaption on a chronic basis, and 14% of them deliberately disguise their manifestations of DID. Only 6% make their DID obvious on an ongoing basis. Eighty percent have windows of diagnosability when stressed or triggered by some significant event, interaction, situation or date. Therefore, 94% of DID patients show only mild or suggestive evidence of their conditions most of the time. Yet DID patients often will acknowledge that their personality systems are actively switching and/or far more active than it would appear on the surface (Loewenstein et al., 1987).R.P. Kluft (2009) A clinician's understanding of dissociation. Pp 599-623.","author":"Paul F. Dell","tags":["diagnosis","dissociation","dissociative-disorders","dissociative-identity-disorder","hidden","hidden-pain","mental-disorder","mental-health","misdiagnosis","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder"],"id":185102,"author_id":"Paul+F.+Dell"},{"text":"Was it possible to feel nostalgic about something that had never happened to him, possible for nostalgia to be taken in by the body as a free pathogen to infect the consciousness with stray sentiments? Perhaps, in his dreams, he had traveled back in time, or even drifted into another dimension of space-time and inhabited the body, experiences, and nostalgia of another. To even envisage so allowed the trauma of those lost moments, though not his own, to draw from him a certain envy for the entity in whose memories he had basked vicariously. . .Perhaps, nostalgia was a microorganism. . .The bacterium that infected. . . Yes. . .Maybe he was sick.","author":"Ashim Shanker","tags":["ailment","bacterium","consciousness","entity","envy","infection","lost-time","microorganisms","multiple-personalities","multiple-universes","nostalgia","pathogen","plague","remembrance-of-things-past","time-travel","vicarious-experience"],"id":198328,"author_id":"Ashim+Shanker"},{"text":"The 'apparently normal personality' - the alter you view as 'the client'You should not assume that the adult who function in the world, or who presents to you, week after week, is the 'real' person, and the other personalities are less real. The client who comes to therapy is not 'the' person; there are other personalities to meet and work.","author":"Alison Miller","tags":["alter","alter-personality","apparently-normal-part","apparently-normal-personality","did","dissociation","dissociative-identity-disorder","mpd","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","personality","psychology","psychotherapy","split-personality","structural-dissociation","therapy"],"id":203694,"author_id":"Alison+Miller"},{"text":"FLATOW: So you would - how would you treat a patient like Sybil if she showed up in your officeBRAND: Well, first I would start with a very thorough assessment, using the current standardized measures that we have available to us that assess for the range of dissociative disorders but the whole range of other psychological disorders, too. I would need to know what I'm working with, and I'd be very careful and make my decisions slowly, based on data about what she has. And furthermore, with therapists who are well-trained in dissociative disorders, we do keep an eye open for suggestibility. But that research, too, is not anywhere near as strong as what the other two people in the interview are suggesting.It shows - for example, there's eight studies that have a total of 11 samples. In the three clinical samples that have looked at the correlation between dissociation and suggestibility, all three clinical samples found non-significant correlations. So it's just not as strong as what people think. That's a myth that's not backed up by science.' Exploring Multiple Personalities In 'Sybil Exposed' October 21, 2011 by Ira Flatow.","author":"Bethany L. Brand","tags":["controversory","dissociation","dissociative-disorders","dissociative-identity-disorder","exposed","fake","fraud","mental-illness-stigma","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality-disorder","reality","suggestibility","suggestible","sybil"],"id":213289,"author_id":"Bethany+L.+Brand"},{"text":"I love the idea of reincarnation, so just in case it doesn't exist, I decided to be different people in the same lifetime.","author":"Nuno Roque","tags":["actor-acting","actor","actors","art","artist","artists-life","artists","bipolar","esotericism","identity","identity-character","multiple-personalities","multiple-personality","multiple-personality-disorder","reincarnation","reincarnation"],"id":230812,"author_id":"Nuno+Roque"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":25,"pages":3,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}