Multiple Personality Disorder: A Clinical Investigation of 50 Consecutive Cases

Coons, Philip H.; Bowman, Elizabeth S.; Milstein, Victör

doi:10.1037/e609942012-085

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“…Participants circle the percentage of time they experience each item on a scale ranging from 0% to 100%. The eight items thought to best reflect pathological dissociation (items, 3,5,7,8,12,13,22,27 ) are collectively referred to as the Dissociative Experiences Scale-Taxon (DES-T, 41 ). The DES has a testretest reliability between .84 and .96 and an internal consistency of .95 42 .…”

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“…Similar sentiments were echoed many years later and before the empirical escalation of interest in dissociative disorders 5 . More recent studies, presenting large cases series of individuals with dissociative disorders (e.g., 6,7,8,9,10,11 ), add scientific weight to prior clinical assertions that dissociative disorders are more common than generally assumed. Further validation of this belief comes from studies of dissociative disorder prevalence in the psychiatric (e.g., 12,13 ) and general 14,15,16 populations.…”

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Do dissociative disorders exist in Northern Ireland?: Blind psychiatric - structured interview assessments of 20 complex psychiatric patients

Dorahy¹,

Mills

Taggart

et al. 2006

Eur. J. Psychiat.

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IRELANDABSTRACT -Background and objectives: Dissociative disorders remain relatively controversial diagnoses in British psychiatry. The aim of the current paper was to assess Northern Irish psychiatric patients with complex clinical presentations for dissociative disorders.Method: Twenty patients meeting operationally defined criteria for psychiatric complexity were blindly assessed by a psychiatrist in a diagnostic interview followed by a clinical psychologist in a structured interview.Results: Thirteen of the 20 participants were positive for at least one dissociative disorder. Those with a dissociative disorder had a range of co-morbid problems and all reported histories of childhood trauma and neglect.Conclusion: The psychiatric symptom profiles of dissociative disorders in Northern Ireland are similar to those reported in the literature. Complex psychiatric presentations offer a potential diagnostic clue for such conditions.

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Do dissociative disorders exist in Northern Ireland?: Blind psychiatric - structured interview assessments of 20 complex psychiatric patients

Dorahy¹,

Mills

Taggart

et al. 2006

Eur. J. Psychiat.

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“…(American Psychiatric Association, 1994), DID is characterized by the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states, who recurrently take control of the personÕs behavior and who each have their own relatively enduring pattern of perceiving, relating to, and thinking about the environment and self. DID patients very frequently report episodes of inter-identity amnesia, in which an identity claims amnesia for events experienced by other identities (Boon & Draijer, 1993;Coons, Bowman, & Milstein, 1988;Putnam, Guroff, Silberman, Barban, & Post, 1986;Ross et al, 1990; for a review see Gleaves, May, & Cardeñ a, 2001). However, this does not mean that patients report a dense amnesia between all identities.…”

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Procedural memory in dissociative identity disorder: When can inter-identity amnesia be truly established?

Huntjens

Postma

Woertman

et al. 2005

Consciousness and Cognition

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In a serial reaction time task, procedural memory was examined in Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Thirty-one DID patients were tested for inter-identity transfer of procedural learning and their memory performance was compared with 25 normal controls and 25 controls instructed to simulate DID. Results of patients seemed to indicate a pattern of inter-identity amnesia. Simulators, however, were able to mimic a pattern of inter-identity amnesia, rendering the results of patients impossible to interpret as either a pattern of amnesia or a pattern of simulation. It is argued that studies not including DID-simulators or simulation-free memory tasks, should not be taken as evidence for (or against) amnesia in DID.

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“…Traumatic experiences, including incest and childhood abuse, have been linked to symptoms of posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) (10)(11)(12)(13)(14)(15)(16)(17)(18) and axis I and II disorders (16,(19)(20)(21)(22)(23), including Schneiderian first-rank symptoms (2-4, 6, 9, 20, 24) and behavioral dysfunction (25)(26)(27)(28)(29)(30)(31)(32)(33)(34)(35)(36)(37)(38)(39)(40)(41)(42)(43)(44). Dissociative identity disorder, which is understood to be a disturbance resulting from severe forms of childhood abuse (1-3, 5, 45), presents with auditory hallucinations (46)(47)(48)(49), severe depression and suicidality (50), phobic anxiety, somatization, substance abuse (51), and borderline features (4,6,14,(52)…”

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