Dissociative identity disorder

Introduction: The case study Dissociative Identity Disorder: Multiple Personality is a case study about a 38-year-old woman named Paula, who had a Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). In the case study, Dr. Harpin, Paula’s psychologist, discovered and treated Paula’s case of DID throughout many sessions. Paula was a divorced mother of two children, who experienced amnesia in her everyday life. Throughout Paula’s sessions with Dr. Harpin, Dr. Harpin discovered four dissociative personalities…

and Other Psychotic Disorders 1. People unfamiliar with the study of abnormal behavior sometimes confuse "multiple personality" (Dissociative Identity Disorder) with schizophrenia. How would you explain the difference? Make sure to support your conclusions with DSM-5 diagnostic criteria. Dissociative Identity Disorder and schizophrenia are often confused, and many believe that they are the same. They are actually two completely different disorders. Schizophrenia is a disorder in the brain that…

me as a person”, he asks himself near the beginning of the movie. However, this activity does not help the narrator’s condition; it only makes it worse. Though we do not discover this until the climax of the movie, our narrator develops Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple…

In the experiment that I researched, the researchers aimed to study the link between early abuse and dissociative identity disorder. At the time that the research was conducted, there was not much documentation of the link between the two. Although this research article is quite dated, I still believe that the results found are relevant almost eighteen years later. Because we have discussed the link between behavior and the environment in depth this semester, I felt that this article was…

“two or more distinct personalities” (Comer 209). Spring, the author of an article called, A guide to...working with dissociative identity disorder, mentions that dissociative disorders “are characterized by 'a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment” (Spring, 2011). Symptoms of multiple personality disorder can include “amnesia, anxiety, auditory hallucinations, depression, fugue episodes, insomnia, low self-esteem,…

The human mind is capable of many extraordinary things; yet, easily damaged when scarred by events too terrible to cope with. Let us take for example: Dissociative Identity Disorder, a severe psychological disorder born from past events that affect one’s future. This mental illness distorts the mind and create multiple personalities or identities that can take over a person’s mind without them realizing it. It creates a different reality in which…

is concerned about her safety since the fire, and how Kathy denies ever being intimate with her husband even though she is the children’s mother. Kathy shows signs of depression, she also has a multiple personality disorder, and is currently showing signs of Dissociative Identity Disorder. When Kathy was a child she identified herself as three different people at various times in her life; Pat, Vera, and Debby. Kathy has suffered from…

This disorder affects 5.9% of adults and most of them are women (75% of people with disorder are females). Several things are believed to lead to this disorder including not being accepted as a child, abuse during childhood, an overactive amygdala, an abnormal 5-HTT gene, a “combination of internal and external forces”, or a rapid changing culture. People affected by this disorder are prone to mood swings, extreme reactions, an unstable and…

Conditioning Treatment of Dissociative Identity Disorder The treatment of the dissociative identity disorder follows a consistent observance of psychological requirements. It is important to understand that therapists have the tendency to clearly understand the best practices regarding medication. Classical conditioning is one of the methods that can be used to ensure that dissociative identity disorder patients get their treatment. Dissociative identity disorder patients have the…

The film Fight Club, based on Chuck Palahniuk’s novel represents dissociative identity disorder throughout the main character (the narrator), who for the majority of the film was namelessly though referred to himself as “Jack” on a few occasions. The character is suffering from anxiety and depression thus bringing forth insomnia, as a response he tries to immerse himself with consumerism. Seemingly, nothing could help his problems until he met, “Tyler Durden”, a free spirited and impulsive…