On multiple personality: Comments on diagnosis, etiology, and treatment

Herzog, Alfred

doi:10.1080/00207148408416011

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“…By contrast, clinical observation (e.g., Fisher, 1945;Herzog, 1985;Ludwig, Brandsma, Wilbur, Benfeldt, & Jameson, 1972) and experimental studies (e.g., Bryant, 1995;Peters, Uyterlinde, Consemulder, & van der Hart, 1998) suggest that the semantic component of the amnesia experienced in DID is more complex. While the occurrent identity may lack access to episodic personal memories of ''absent'' identities, it often is aware of dispositional features (and often holds them in low regard!)…”

Section: Semantic Trait Self-knowledge Vs Semantic Factual Self-knowlmentioning

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The unanticipated resilience of trait self-knowledge in the face of neural damage

Klein

Lax

2010

Memory

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This paper explores the question of what the self is by reviewing research conducted with both normal and neuropsychological participants. Findings converge on the idea that the self may be more complex and differentiated than some previous treatments of the topic have suggested. Although some aspects of self-knowledge such as episodic recollection may be compromised in individuals, other aspects-for instance, semantic trait summaries-appear largely intact. Taken together, these findings support the idea that the self is not a single, unified entity. Rather, it is a set of interrelated, functionally independent systems. In the process of reviewing neuropsychological findings, an unexpected result emerges: trait self-knowledge appears unusually robust with respect to neural and cognitive damage that render other aspects of self-knowledge dysfunctional in varying degrees.

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Section: Semantic Trait Self-knowledge Vs Semantic Factual Self-knowlmentioning

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The unanticipated resilience of trait self-knowledge in the face of neural damage

Klein

Lax

2010

Memory

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135

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“…A possible explanation for this difference is that, among clinicians using hypnosis, there is greater variability in their concerns about iatrogenesis. Some DID specialists have warned that indiscriminate use ofhypnosis might exacerbate the disorder (13). Clinicians using hypnosis who are concerned about this possibility might limit the number of alter personalities they attempt to elicit, on the assumption that too many alters would reflect iatrogenesis.…”

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The Effects of Hypnosis on Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Reexamination of the Evidence

Powell

Gee

1999

Can J Psychiatry

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“…According to many investigators who adopt a psychodynamic perspective, the most important antecedents of multiple personality involve early developmental traumas such as sexual abuse, severe physical punishment, and ambivalent and inconsistent treatment by parents (Allison, 1974;Gruenewald, 1977Gruenewald, , 1984Herzog, 1984). Although adult stresses may trigger some manifestations of the disorder, these are considered insufficient in the absence of predisposing developmental antecedents to produce multiple personalities.…”

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Multiple personality: A social psychological perspective.

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Bertrand³

1985

Journal of Abnormal Psychology

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The part of an accused murderer remanded for pretrial psychiatric evaluation was role played by 48 college students. Role players were assigned to interview treatments that varied in how extensively they cued for symptoms of multiple personality. The most explicit treatment (i.e., Bianchi treatment, n = 16) included a hypnotic interview that was used in diagnosing a suspect in the "Hillside strangler" rape-murder cases as suffering from multiple personality. A less explicit hypnotic treatment (n = 16) and a nonhypnotic treatment (n = 16) were administered to the remaining role players. Most subjects in the Bianchi treatment displayed the major signs of multiple personality (e.g., adoption of a different name, spontaneous posthypnotic amnesia). In a later session subjects who role played as multiple personalities performed very differently on psychological tests administered separately to each role-played identity. Those who failed to enact the multiple personality role performed similarly when tested twice. Findings are discussed in terms of a social psychological formulation that emphasizes the roles of active cognizing, contextual cuing, and social legitimation in the genesis of multiple personality.

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On multiple personality: Comments on diagnosis, etiology, and treatment

Cited by 9 publications

References 16 publications

The unanticipated resilience of trait self-knowledge in the face of neural damage

The unanticipated resilience of trait self-knowledge in the face of neural damage

The Effects of Hypnosis on Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Reexamination of the Evidence

Multiple personality: A social psychological perspective.

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