
	Where results make sense

Topic: Dissociative identity disorder

Related Topics

Multiple personality disorder

Mental illness (alphabetical list)

Personality disorder

Avoidant personality disorder

Mental illness

Schizoid personality disorder

Panic disorder

Gender identity disorder

Dependent personality disorder

Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders

Narcissistic personality disorder

Histrionic personality disorder

In the News (Tue 10 Nov 09)

Northern Trust

Marvin Harrison

Peter Chernin

Gary Locke

Match Play

Penelope Cruz

Mickey Rourke

AR Rahman

Danny Boyle

Hugh Jackman

	Dissociative Identity Disorder: Amnesia and Related Disorders: Merck Manual Home Edition
		Dissociative identity disorder appears to be caused by the interaction of several factors.
		Dissociative identity disorder is chronic and potentially disabling or fatal, although many with the disorder function very well and lead creative and productive lives.
		People with dissociative identity disorder may not be able to recall things they have done or account for changes in their behavior.
	www.merck.com /mmhe/sec07/ch106/ch106d.html (1042 words)

	Dissociative Disorders (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dissociation is a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity.
		For example, during a traumatic experience, a person may dissociate the memory of the place and circumstances of the trauma from his ongoing memory, resulting in a temporary mental escape from the fear and pain of the trauma and, in some cases, a memory gap surrounding the experience.
		Dissociative Disorders are often referred to as a highly creative survival technique because they allow individuals enduring "hopeless" circumstances to preserve some areas of healthy functioning.
	www.sidran.org /didbr.html (1684 words)

	Dissociative identity disorder Information on Healthline
		Previously known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a condition in which a person has more than one distinct identity or personality state.
		Dissociation is related to hypnosis in that hypnotic trance also involves a temporarily altered state of consciousness.
		Dissociation occurs along a continuum or spectrum, and may be mild and part of the range of normal experience, or may be severe and pose a problem for the individual experiencing the dissociation.
	www.healthline.com /galecontent/dissociative-identity-disorder (948 words)

	Dissociative identity disorder Encyclopedia of Psychology - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The disorder is far more common among females than males (as high as 9-to-1), and the usual age of onset is in early childhood, generally by the age of four.
		In this way, DID is similar to post-traumatic stress disorder, and recent thinking in psychiatry has suggested that the two disorders may be linked; some are even beginning to view DID as a severe subtype of post-traumatic stress disorder.
		Treatment of dissociative identity disorder is a long and difficult process, and success (the complete integration of identity) is rare.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0001/ai_2699000101 (1111 words)

	eMedicine - Child Abuse & Neglect: Dissociative Identity Disorder : Article by Muhammad Waseem, MD (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dissociative identity disorder is increasingly understood as a complex and chronic posttraumatic psychopathology closely related to severe, particularly early, child abuse.
		Various degrees of dissociative disorders exist, ranging from passive disengagement and withdrawal from the active environment to multiple personality disorder (MPD), a severe dissociative disorder characterized by disturbances in both identity and memory and best understood as a posttraumatic, adaptive dissociative response to the fear and pain of overwhelming trauma, most commonly abuse.
		Other, more subtle, signs of dissociation may exist, such as the patient experiencing episodes of amnesia or flout in the absence of substance abuse, referring to himself or herself as we, being told by others of behavior he or she does not recall, or being greeted by people he or she does not know.
	www.emedicine.com /ped/topic2651.htm (4310 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)
		Dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly called multiple personality disorder, is one of a group of conditions called dissociative disorders.
		Dissociative disorders are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception.
		Dissociation is a coping mechanism that a person uses to disconnect from a stressful or traumatic situation or to separate traumatic memories from normal awareness.
	www.webmd.com /content/article/118/112901.htm (1153 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder
		Dissociation is a mental process which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, memories, feelings, actions, or sense of identity.
		For example, during a traumatic experience, a person may dissociate the memory of the place and circumstances of the trauma from his ongoing memory, resulting in a temporary mental escape from the fear and pain of the trauma and, in some cases, a memory gap surrounding the experience.
		Dissociative disorders are highly responsive to individual psychotherapy, or "talk therapy," as well as to a range of other treatment modalities, including medications, hypnotherapy, and adjunctive therapies such as art or movement therapy.
	www.angelfire.com /nj/Dissociative (1865 words)

	DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER
		Allen, J.J.B., Iacono, W.G. Assessing the validity of amnesia in dissociative identity disorder: A dilemma for the DSM and the courts.
		Barach, P.M., and Comstock, C.M. Psychodynamic psychotherapy of dissociative identity disorder.
		Ellason, J.W., Ross, C.A. (1997), Two-year follow-up of inpatients with dissociative identity disorder.
	atrium.issd.org /membersonly/coons/coonsdid.html (12713 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Dissociative Identity Disorder - Search Results - MSN Encarta
		Dissociative Identity Disorder, often called multiple personality disorder, mental illness in which a person has two or more distinct identities or...
		Dissociative identity disorder, also called multiple personality disorder, is a type of amnesia in which a person appears to have two or more...
	encarta.msn.com /Dissociative_Identity_Disorder.html (152 words)

	Dissociative identity disorder Summary
		The severe dissociation that characterizes patients with DID is currently understood to result from a set of causes that include: an innate ability to dissociate easily; repeated episodes of severe physical or sexual abuse in childhood; and lack of a supportive or comforting person to counteract abusive relative(s).
		DID patients are often frightened by their dissociative experiences and may go to emergency rooms or clinics because they fear they are going insane.
		The difference between a psychotic break and a dissociation, or dissociative break, is that, while someone who is experiencing a dissociation is technically pulling away from a situation that s/he cannot manage, some part of the person remains connected to reality.
	www.bookrags.com /Dissociative_identity_disorder (4919 words)

	Multiple Personality :: Dissociative : Gourt
		Dissociative identity disorder is a diagnosis described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition, Revised, as the existence in an individual of two or more distinct identities or personalities, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.
		Dissociative identity disorder was initially named multiple personality disorder, and that name remains in the International Statistical Classification of Diseases and Related Health Problems.
		While dissociation is a demonstrable psychiatric condition that is tied to several different disorders, specifically those involving early childhood trauma and anxiety, multiple personality remains controversial.
	www.gourt.com /Health/Mental-Health/Disorders/Dissociative/Multiple-Personality.html (1136 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder/Multiple Personality Disorder Encyclopedia of Childhood and Adolescence - Find Articles (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		The physical changes that occur in a switch between alters is one of the most difficult aspects of dissociative identity disorder for psychiatrists to understand.
		Dissociative amnesia, referred to as psychogenic amnesia in DSM-III-R, is one of the dissociative disorders described in DSM-IV.
		The average age of onset of DID is in early childhood, generally by the age of four.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_g2602/is_0002/ai_2602000201 (862 words)

	Dissociative identity disorder - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Dissociative identity disorder is a psychiatric diagnosis described in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, 4th Edition (DSM), Revised, as the existence in an individual of two or more distinct personalities or ego-states, each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment.
		While dissociation is a demonstrable psychiatric condition that is tied to several different disorders, specifically those involving early childhood trauma and anxiety, multiple personality remains controversial.
		The difference between a psychotic break and a dissociation, or dissociative break, is that, while someone who is experiencing a dissociation is technically pulling away from a situation that s/he cannot manage, some part of the person remains connected to reality.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Disassociative_identity_disorder (3219 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder
		The Epidemiology of DID in Adulthood and Childhood: Implications for Iatrogenesis
		The SCM further posits that DID is one variant of a broader constellation of multiple identity enactments, including demonic possession, mass hysteria, transvestism, and glossolalia, that traverse cultural and historical boundaries.
		Although we do not believe that the extant data on DID are sufficient to permit a definitive refutation of either model, we contend that adequate data are now available to accept many of the major premises of the SCM and to raise important questions concerning a number of the central tenets of the PTM.
	www.ipce.info /library_3/files/did.htm (1608 words)

	Psychology Today's Diagnosis Dictionary: Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)
		DID was called Multiple Personality Disorder until 1994, when the name was changed to reflect a better understanding of the condition -- namely, that it is characterized by a fragmentation, or splintering, of identity rather than by a proliferation, or growth, of separate identities.
		DID reflects a failure to integrate various aspects of identity, memory and consciousness in a single multidimensional self.
		The various identities may deny knowledge of one another, be critical of one another or appear to be in open conflict.
	www.psychologytoday.com /conditions/did.html (636 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder)
		Dissociative disorders are mental illnesses that involve disruptions or breakdowns of memory, awareness, identity and/or perception.
		Dissociation is a coping mechanism that a person uses to disconnect from a stressful or traumatic situation or to separate traumatic memories from normal awareness.
		Dissociation can be described as a temporary mental escape (similar to self-hypnosis) from the fear and pain of the trauma.
	www.clevelandclinic.org /health/health-info/docs/3700/3782.asp?index=9792&src=news (1281 words)

	Dissociative-Identity-Disorder/therapist (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Schizophrenia is a chronic form of psychosis due to a biochemical/genetic disorder of the brain.
		It is often thought that DID is a sham, a bizarre form of play-acting that is perpetrated by manipulative, attention-seeking individuals.
		DID is a disorder of hiddeness wherein 80-90% of DID patients do not have a clue that they are multiple.
	www.dissociative.co.za (627 words)

	multiple personality disorder (dissociative identity disorder)
		Psychologist Nicholas P. Spanos argues that repressed memories of childhood abuse and multiple personality disorder are "rule-governed social constructions established, legitimated, and maintained through social interaction." In short, Spanos argues that most cases of MPD have been created by therapists with the cooperation of their patients and the rest of society.
		According to Spanos, "Multiple identities can develop in a wide variety of cultural contexts and serve numerous different social functions." Neither childhood sexual abuse nor mental disorder is a necessary condition for multiple personality to manifest itself.
		Some claim that this proliferation of disorders indicates an attempt of therapists to expand their market; others see the rise in disorders as evidence of better diagnostic tools.
	www.skepdic.com /mpd.html (2514 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
		Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly referred to as multiple personality disorder, is characterized by the existence of 2 or more identities or personality traits within a single individual.
		The typical clinical presentation is one of a refractory psychiatric disorder, usually a mood disorder, or with multiple somatic symptoms.
		DID is thought to begin in childhood in response to repeated traumatic and/or overwhelming life experiences, most of which involve physical and sexual abuse.
	www.realmentalhealth.com /dissociative_disorders/did.asp (642 words)

	NAMI \| Dissociative Identity Disorder (formerly Multiple Personality Disorder)
		Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), previously referred to as multiple personality disorder (MPD), is a dissociative disorder involving a disturbance of identity in which two or more separate and distinct personality states (or identities) control the individual's behavior at different times.
		At the time that a person with DID first seeks professional help, he or she is usually not aware of the condition.
		Young children have a pronounced ability to dissociate, and it is believed that those who are abused may learn to use dissociation as a defense.
	www.nami.org /Template.cfm?Section=Helpline&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=20562 (635 words)

	An Introduction To Dissociative Identity Disorder
		Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), is one of the five dissociative disorders identified by the American Psychiatric Association (DSM-IV, 1994).
		Dissociation occurs when there is a disruption of the normal processes of consciousness, perception, memory, and identity that define a person's individual self.
		During a traumatic experience, dissociating from whatever circumstances the person (usually a child) might be in provides a temporary mental escape from the pain of the trauma, which often results in a memory gap, as well (Sidran Foundation, 1994).
	www.suite101.com /article.cfm/did/92827 (585 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder
		Considered to be the effect of severe trauma in early childhood, DID is commonly described as a 'highly creative survival technique' that a child uses to 'escape' from extreme, repeated physical, sexual, and/or emotional abuse (4)..
		DID is classified as one of four main kinds of Dissociative Disorders (DSM-IV), as it is a mental disorder in which normal consciousness or identity is split or altered, after an intense psychological trauma (5).
		These repeated dissociations may eventually be the cause of fragmentation of one's mental state into several spearate entities, which may eventualy become internal 'personality states' of their own (4).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro01/web1/Shah.html (1683 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder
		Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is considered by the American Psychiatric Association to be one of 4 main kinds of dissociative disorders (DSM-IV): "The essential feature of dissociative disorders is a disturbance or alteration in the normally integrative functions of identity, memory, or consciousness" (8).
		Dissociation often enables victims to maintain a relatively healthy level of functioning because traumatic memories are disconnected from other information in their minds.
		Hypnotherapy is commonly used in treating DID because of its facilitation of memory retrieval, "calming, soothing, containment, and ego strengthening" qualities (4).
	serendip.brynmawr.edu /bb/neuro/neuro98/202s98-paper2/Kaplan2.html (1629 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder in AllPsych Journal (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-09)
		Dissociation is the state in which a person becomes separated from reality.
		Dissociative disorders are not common psychiatric illnesses but are not rare.
		Dissociative disorders are the world, although the structure of the symptoms varies across cultures.
	allpsych.com /journal/did.html (1914 words)

	Dissociative Identity Disorder
		In contrast, the adult showed a significant asymmetry, with increased activity in the left temporal lobe, This was consistent with a previous SPECT study indicating the temporal lobes, -and the left temporal lobe, in particular-may mediate the phenomenon of dissociative identity disorder (Saxe, Vasile, Hill, Bloomingdale, and van der Kolk, 1992).
		It is concluded that corroboration of temporal lobe involvement in the phenomenon of dissociative identity disorder does not reify this diagnostic classification, but does suggest promising hypotheses for future investigations.
		Nevertheless, regardless of the controversial scientific status of the DID construct, we would aver that consistent findings of temporal lobe involvement in persons who claim and demonstrate symptoms of DID are results with theoretical import, with possible concatenations to implausible beliefs and experiences, suggestibility, and childhood pseudo-memories, as well as brain physiology.
	www.priory.com /psych/did.htm (1686 words)

Try your search on: Qwika (all wikis)