The Controversy Over Dissociative Identity Disorder
The debate over DID and MPD arose in the context of the furor over repressed and later recovered memories of childhood sexual abuse, the child sex abuse panic of the 1980s, and associated stories of...
View ArticleBelievers in Dissociative Identity Disorder
The basic premise of the believers is that child abuse or child sexual abuse are trivialized and under-reported. Some people find it hard to believe that real mothers and fathers would abuse their...
View ArticleWhat is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is the current name of the condition formerly listed in the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) and...
View ArticleProfessional Viewpoints On Dissociative Identity Disorder
Professionals who still find the DID diagnosis useful Some professionals admit that uncritical belief and questionable therapeutic practices were rife during the heyday of the recovered memories/ritual...
View ArticleCritics of Dissociative Identity Disorder
Those skeptical of DID say that humans often lie, exaggerate, and fantasize, and that it is a mistake to demand uncritical belief in stories of child abuse, recovered memories, and multiple...
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