Dissociative Identity Disorder
Upon hearing about the requirements for this assignment I was puzzled on what to write about. I sought the advice of my peers and mentors, yet all of their answers tended to be somewhat the same. Every disorder that was given to me as an example seemed to be that of a common disorder that most people know about or would be familiar with such as schizophrenia or anxiety disorders and the like. What I found more difficult was to think of a disorder that isn’t well known and hasn’t been broadcasted much for everyone to be knowledgeable about. So I started searching to achieve the goal of writing a paper on something different. What I found was quite intriguing and caught my attention immediately upon hearing about it. My goal throughout this
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This was the first time that the symptoms had a separate diagnosis rather than being grouped together with all the other dissociative disorders. After this separation there were 200 reported cases which increased to 20,000 by 1990. The name of this disorder did not stay for long however, as it was renamed to its current name “Dissociative Identity Disorder” in 1987 when the DSM-IV was published. (Kluft, Steinberg, & Spitzer, 1988) Though the specific causes of DID or where it came from are difficult to comprehend even for qualified professionals, it is believed to brought on by severe or prolonged trauma that occurred during childhood including factors such as emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. Paulette Gillig, PhD stated that:
“In general, practitioners who accept the validity of DID as a diagnosis attribute it to the effects of exposure to situations of extreme ambivalence and abuse in early childhood that are coped with by an elaborate form of denial so that the child believes the event to be happening to someone else (perhaps starting out as an imaginary companion)” …show more content…
O., Martindale, B., & Cullberg, J. (2006). Evolving psychosis different stages, different treatments. London: Routledge.
Kluft, R., Steinberg, M., & Spitzer, R. (n.d.). Revisions in the Dissociative Disorders: An Exploration of their Derivation and Rationale . Scholarsbank. Retrieved April 23, 2014, from https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1329/Diss_1_1_4_OCR_rev.pdf?sequence=4
Kluft, R. P. (1999). An Overview of the Psychotherapy of Dissociative Identity Disorder. American Journal Of Psychotherapy, 53(3), 289.
Pais, S. (n.d.). Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder. Retrieved April 23, 2014, from http://www.aamft.org/imis15/content/consumer_updates/Dissociative_identity_disorder.aspx
Ross, C., & Ellason, J. (1997). JOAN W. ELLASON AND COLIN A. ROSS DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER Am J Psychiatry 154:6, June 1997 Two-Year Follow-Up of Inpatients With Dissociative Identity Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 184, 832-839. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from the Ebsco database. der Hart, O. v., Lierens, R., & Goodwin, J. (2006). Jeanne Fery: A Sixteen Century Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder. The Journal of Psychohistory, 24(1), 12. Retrieved April 22, 2014, from the Ebsco
This was the first time that the symptoms had a separate diagnosis rather than being grouped together with all the other dissociative disorders. After this separation there were 200 reported cases which increased to 20,000 by 1990. The name of this disorder did not stay for long however, as it was renamed to its current name “Dissociative Identity Disorder” in 1987 when the DSM-IV was published. (Kluft, Steinberg, & Spitzer, 1988) Though the specific causes of DID or where it came from are difficult to comprehend even for qualified professionals, it is believed to brought on by severe or prolonged trauma that occurred during childhood including factors such as emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. Paulette Gillig, PhD stated that:
“In general, practitioners who accept the validity of DID as a diagnosis attribute it to the effects of exposure to situations of extreme ambivalence and abuse in early childhood that are coped with by an elaborate form of denial so that the child believes the event to be happening to someone else (perhaps starting out as an imaginary companion)” …show more content…
O., Martindale, B., & Cullberg, J. (2006). Evolving psychosis different stages, different treatments. London: Routledge.
Kluft, R., Steinberg, M., & Spitzer, R. (n.d.). Revisions in the Dissociative Disorders: An Exploration of their Derivation and Rationale . Scholarsbank. Retrieved April 23, 2014, from https://scholarsbank.uoregon.edu/xmlui/bitstream/handle/1794/1329/Diss_1_1_4_OCR_rev.pdf?sequence=4
Kluft, R. P. (1999). An Overview of the Psychotherapy of Dissociative Identity Disorder. American Journal Of Psychotherapy, 53(3), 289.
Pais, S. (n.d.). Dissociative Identity Disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder. Retrieved April 23, 2014, from http://www.aamft.org/imis15/content/consumer_updates/Dissociative_identity_disorder.aspx
Ross, C., & Ellason, J. (1997). JOAN W. ELLASON AND COLIN A. ROSS DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER Am J Psychiatry 154:6, June 1997 Two-Year Follow-Up of Inpatients With Dissociative Identity Disorder. American Journal of Psychiatry, 184, 832-839. Retrieved April 20, 2014, from the Ebsco database. der Hart, O. v., Lierens, R., & Goodwin, J. (2006). Jeanne Fery: A Sixteen Century Case of Dissociative Identity Disorder. The Journal of Psychohistory, 24(1), 12. Retrieved April 22, 2014, from the Ebsco