dissociative identity disorder
DESCRIPTION
Dissociative Identity Disorder: Information, Feelings, and Emotions Psychology Alternative Final ProjectTRANSCRIPT
![Page 1: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/1.jpg)
{
Dissociative Identity Disorder
By: Emma Swift
![Page 2: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/2.jpg)
Note to the Reader
This is a project for a high school AP Psychology course. This is a fictionalized account of having a psychological ailment. For questions about this blog project or its contents, please email the teacher, Laura Astorian: [email protected].
![Page 3: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/3.jpg)
have DID.
in 100 people3
![Page 4: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/4.jpg)
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID): psychological disorder in which two or more identities, or personalities, exist in an individual that can each take over the conscious behavior of the individual at different periods of time
Formerly called Multiple Personality Disorder
What is DID?
![Page 5: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/5.jpg)
The Personalities
![Page 6: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/6.jpg)
When under influence of one personality, the patient doesn’t recall events that occurred while in other personalities, behaving as a completely different person
Period of time controlled by a personality can range from an hour to five years
Each personality can have different characteristics (name, gender, physical attributes such as need for glasses)
Average number of alters (personalities): 10-13
The Personalities
![Page 7: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/7.jpg)
First case in 1811 for Mary Reynolds and was documented by physician Samul Mitchel
Main early theorists of DID: Pierre Janet (explored unconscious and hypnosis), Morton Prince (explored relationship between physical and psychological parts of DID), and Boris Sidis (explored the role of neurons )
Became official disorder when added to DSM in 1980
Called Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) in DSM-III but name changed to DID in DSM-IV
Brief History
![Page 8: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/8.jpg)
{
Subjects with DID usually unaware that they have it
Thought to be caused by sexual or physical abuse as a child
First development of an alter at an average age of 5.9 years, typically in childhood
The Beginning
![Page 9: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/9.jpg)
Diagnosis
On average, patients have spend 7 years in medical care before coming to a final diagnosis
Four times as many women as men are diagnosed
Symptoms may be: obsessive compulsive behavior , eating disorders, depression, and drug abuse
![Page 10: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/10.jpg)
Treatment
Main methods: hypnosis and psychotherapy
Therapy aims to stabilize the individual and have the alters unite into single personality (integration)
Therapy: therapist tries to effectively communicate with all alters
Tries to get personalities to meet one another and interact
Attempts to uncover traumatic events, retrieve methods, and make peace with them
No know medication available for treatment
![Page 11: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/11.jpg)
{The Struggle and Emotions
What it is Like to Have DID
![Page 12: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/12.jpg)
Loss of Identity
![Page 13: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/13.jpg)
Too many thoughts. Too many emotions. So many people in my head.
Thought Overload
![Page 14: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/14.jpg)
Crowding
![Page 15: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/15.jpg)
Low Self-Esteem
![Page 16: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/16.jpg)
Lost
![Page 17: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/17.jpg)
Frustrated
![Page 18: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/18.jpg)
Dark. Cold.
![Page 19: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/19.jpg)
Fake
![Page 20: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/20.jpg)
Confused
![Page 21: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/21.jpg)
![Page 22: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/22.jpg)
Loss of Time
![Page 23: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/23.jpg)
Memory Gaps
![Page 24: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/24.jpg)
Lost Opportunities
![Page 25: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/25.jpg)
Dispelling Myths about Dissociative Identity Disorder | Psych Central - Part 2. (n.d.). Psych Central. Retrieved December 14, 2013, from http://psychcentral.com/lib/dispelling-myths-about-dissociative-identity-disorder/0009785/2
Dissociation and dissociative disorders. (n.d.). Better Health Channel. Retrieved
December 14, 2013, from http://www.betterhealth.vic.gov.au/bhcv2/bhcarticles.nsf/pages/Dissociation_and_dissociative_disorders
Dissociative Identity Disorder. (n.d.). NAMI. Retrieved December 14, 2013, from
http://nami.org/Template.cfm?Section=Helpline&Template=/ContentManagement/ContentDisplay.cfm&ContentID=20562
Dissociative Identity Disorder. (n.d.). Psychology Today. Retrieved December 13, 2014, from http://www.psychologytoday.com/conditions/dissociative-identity-disorder-multiple-personality-disorder?tab=Symptoms
Dissociative Identity Disorder. (n.d.). Dissociative Identity Disorder. Retrieved December 14, 2013, from http://www.aamft.org/imis15/content/Consumer_Updates/Dissociative_Identity_Disorder.aspx
Works Cited
![Page 26: Dissociative Identity Disorder](https://reader038.vdocuments.us/reader038/viewer/2022110114/54564cadaf7959be7f8ba195/html5/thumbnails/26.jpg)
Dissociative Identity Disorder Symptoms, Causes, Treatment - What is
dissociative identity disorder? - MedicineNet. (n.d.). MedicineNet. Retrieved December 14, 2013, from http://www.medicinenet.com/dissociative_identity_disorder/page2.htm#what_is_dissociative_identity_disorder
Clinic Staff. (2011, March 3). Definition of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Mayo Clinic. Retrieved December 14, 2013, from http://www.mayoclinic.com/health/dissociative-disorders/DS00574/DSECTION=symptoms
Phelphs, J. (n.d.). Celebrities with Dissociative Disorders. Yahoo Contributor Network. Retrieved December 14, 2013, from http://voices.yahoo.com/celebrities-dissociative-disorders-6680648.html?cat=70
Vernon, L., Kallio, J., & Wilcox, A. (n.d.). Some Symptoms & Indications of
Dissociative Identity Disorder. Safe Home. Retrieved December 13, 2014, from http://www.sascwr.org/files/www/resources_pdfs/mental_illness/Symptoms_of_DID.pdf
Works Cited