Dissociative Identity Disorder

Dissociative Identity Disorder Max Denis April 28, 2000 From the Diagnosis and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, dissociative identity disorder (DID) is recognized as the presence of two or more distinct identities or personality states that recurrently take control of the behavior. There is an inability to recall important personal information, the extent of which is too great to be explained by ordinary forgetfulness (1994). It is a kind of amnesia that repressed all the traumatic memories most …

…efficient results. Studies have been done to determine the effectiveness of these therapies. The results of a research study conducted by Russell A. Powel and Andrew J. Howell mentionned that only a minority of patients had become integrated, but most were judge by their therapists and themselves to be moderately or greatly improved. It has been also conclude that patient who are more likely to be reintegrated were the ones with the less severe symptoms.