Dissociative Identity Disorder Research Paper
Imagine what it would feel like if you could develope a whole new personality and mental perspective of life. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a mental illness that allows the brain to perceive a new identity through the holder’s eyes. I became familiar with the mental illness by watching the famous television show Bates Motel. The main character, Norman Bates, is a seventeen year old caucasian male that has no history of any mental illnesses. He has symptoms of dissociative identity disorder from the significant impairments in most areas of his life. There are five criterias for the diagnostic of DID; Norman meets all five of the criteria. My essential question, to begin my research, is “what does it take for the brain to develop dissociative
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DID is defined as the presence of two or more distinct personality states (Barlow 5). It is a significant disruption in a person’s usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment (Levy 73). In the patient’s eyes, they believe they are someone else, but can’t tell a difference until the illness is pointed out. The identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person’s behavior at least 4 times within a day (Levy 73). Putnam argued that alternate identities are discrete states of consciousness that are demonstrably dissociated from each other (5). Psychological researchers, to this day, continue to research dissociative identity disorder because of the in-depth …show more content…
The sessions will include a therapist and the patient, one-on-one, to evaluate his/her feelings and begin the treatment process. Therapy will be longer sessions (75- 90 minutes) and may extend to five or more years (Spring 44-46). Phase oriented treatment is most effective for the patients. The three stages include: first establishing safety, stabilisation, and symptom reduction. Second is working through and integrating traumatic memories and finally third is integration and rehabilitation (Spring 44-46). Hypnosis is sometimes used to help people with dissociative identity disorder learn more about their personality states in hope to gain more control of those states (Dryden- Edwards). Most therapist will perform extra duties and provide webcam or phone call sessions for the patients to make the process become faster and more
DID is defined as the presence of two or more distinct personality states (Barlow 5). It is a significant disruption in a person’s usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity, or perception of the environment (Levy 73). In the patient’s eyes, they believe they are someone else, but can’t tell a difference until the illness is pointed out. The identities or personality states recurrently take control of the person’s behavior at least 4 times within a day (Levy 73). Putnam argued that alternate identities are discrete states of consciousness that are demonstrably dissociated from each other (5). Psychological researchers, to this day, continue to research dissociative identity disorder because of the in-depth …show more content…
The sessions will include a therapist and the patient, one-on-one, to evaluate his/her feelings and begin the treatment process. Therapy will be longer sessions (75- 90 minutes) and may extend to five or more years (Spring 44-46). Phase oriented treatment is most effective for the patients. The three stages include: first establishing safety, stabilisation, and symptom reduction. Second is working through and integrating traumatic memories and finally third is integration and rehabilitation (Spring 44-46). Hypnosis is sometimes used to help people with dissociative identity disorder learn more about their personality states in hope to gain more control of those states (Dryden- Edwards). Most therapist will perform extra duties and provide webcam or phone call sessions for the patients to make the process become faster and more