The Simulation and Dissimulation of Multiple Personality Disorder

Kluft, Richard P.

doi:10.1080/00029157.1987.10404170

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“…Several frankly malingered cases have been published; it is well known that behaviour characteristic of alter personalities can quite easily be role-played (38)(39)(40)(41). This ease of role-playing is particularly worrisome, given that 3 proponents of the posttraumatic model discovered that not even they could distinguish actual from malingered MPD (42,43). If practitioners who have studied dissociative disorders for years cannot reliably make this distinction, it would seem that other clinicians are unlikely to do so.…”

Section: Reliability Of the Did Diagnosis: Daubert Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Persistence of Folly: Critical Examination of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Part II. The Defence and Decline of Multiple Personality or Dissociative Identity Disorder

Piper

Merskey

2004

Can J Psychiatry

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In this second part of our review, we continue to explore the illogical nature of the arguments offered to support the concept of dissociative identity disorder (DID). We also examine the harm done to patients by DID proponents' diagnostic and treatment methods. It is shown that these practices reify the alters and thereby iatrogenically encourage patients to behave as if they have multiple selves. We next examine the factors that make impossible a reliable diagnosis of DID--for example, the unsatisfactory, vague, and elastic definition of "alter personality." Because the diagnosis is unreliable, we believe that US and Canadian courts cannot responsibly accept testimony in favour of DID. Finally, we conclude with a guess about the condition's status over the next 10 years.

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Section: Reliability Of the Did Diagnosis: Daubert Concernsmentioning

confidence: 99%

The Persistence of Folly: Critical Examination of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Part II. The Defence and Decline of Multiple Personality or Dissociative Identity Disorder

Piper

Merskey

2004

Can J Psychiatry

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“…How can a clinician approach the task of sorting through potential fiction? In addition to the careful examination presenting features, Kluft (1987) suggests other areas of differences between true MPD patients and malingerers: Malingerers generally were unable to manifest consistent alternate personalities over time in terms of memory, affect, and personal characteristics.…”

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confidence: 99%

The simulation of multiple personalities: A case report.

Brick¹

1991

Psychotherapy: Theory, Research, Practice, Training

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The realistic simulation of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) has become much more possible as a result of the recent proliferation of information about MPD in the professional and popular press. Such simulation has been documented most frequently as malingering in a forensic context. However, outside a forensic context where the motivation may not be obvious, the detection of simulated MPD can be a difficult task. IntroductionDespite some ongoing professional skepticism, Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a recognized disorder, and is a part of the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-III-R classification (1987). Since 1980, when the first comprehensive descriptions of MPD began to appear in modern psychiatric literature (Bliss, 1980;Coons, 1980;Greaves, 1980), there has been a rapid growth in the amount of professional information available to clinicians. The public has also been heavily exposed to information about MPD, beginning with books about MPD such as The Three Faces of Eve (Thigpen & Cleckley, 1957) and Sybil (Schreiber, 1973), more recent first-person accounts of sexual abuse and dissociation (Bass & Davis, 1988), and frequent appearances of both mental health professionals and patients on radio and television talk shows. As with any other diagnosis which captures public and professional attention, MPD may be simulated.This paper concerns instances where persons deliberately fabricate the signs and symptoms of

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“…Several discussions of this particular differential diagnosis appear in the literature (Orne, Dirges, & ()rne, 1984;Watkins, 1984;Kluft, 1987b;Brick & Chu, 1991). In brief, the deliberate and realistic simulation of MPD over a brief period of lime is not difficult.…”

Section: Malingering or Factitious Disorders Misdiagnosed As Mpdmentioning

confidence: 99%