1. Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder) Yovany Gaspar Psychology Period 5

2. Dissociative Identity Disorder A disorganization of the self and attributed discrepant experiences to separate individuals within the self. o Holds a controversial history on the validation of the disorder.  Variation of the definition.

3. Associated Features Difficulty retaining memories and hold distorted experiences and time. o experience a form of amnesia. Individual exemplifies two distinct personality states. o can retain up to 10 identities but there have been exceptions.

4. Associated Features Depersonalization o It is a feeling of watching oneself act, while having no control; the world has become less real, vague, dreamlike, or lacking in significance. Derealization o A feeling or experience of unreality of the outside world. Identity Confusion o A failure to establish a positive identity. Identity Alteration o A feeling of being fragmented within the self and split into multiples.

5. Associated Features HostAlters Exemplifies characteristics of passiveness, dependency, guilt or depression. Suffers from the fragmented memory. Act confident, demanding, hostile or self destructive. Protectors to the host. Arise at spontaneous times. Triggered by psychosocial stress or personally salient stimulus. Active alter interacts with the environment while others perceive within.

6. Associated Features DSM-IV-TR Criteria Expresses loss of memory. Stress from traumatic events. Enact the role that one feels comfortable with. Enters a state of fantasy.

7. Meet Sybil As a child, Sybil was abused by her mother. Sudden triggers such as hooks or certain noised call forth her alters. Dr. Wilbur becomes Sybil’s psychologist. Her alters include: Peggy, Marcia, Vanessa, Vicky, Sid.

8. Etiology Biological o extreme stress causing alterations in brain function. Disturbances in childhood o traumatic abuse both physical and mental.

9. Prevalence.o1% of the general population actually has DID. 7% have been underdiagnosed with dissociative disorders. 1/3 say they feel as though they retain the disorder.

10. Treatment Post traumatic therapy Helping the patient integrate the inner self. Psychoanalytic therapy Hypnosis

11. Prognosis Individual must go through extensive therapy but not all clients come through. Some clients must endure throughout their lifetime.

12. References Halgin, R.D. and Whitbourne, S.F. (2005). Abnormal psychology: clinical perspectives on psychological disorders. New York, NY: Mcgraw-Hill. Meyers, D.G. (2011). Meyer’s psychology for ap. New York, NY: Worth Publishers. Cleveland Clinic. (n.d.) Dissociative Identity Disorder (Multiple Personality Disorder). Retrieved from http://myclevelandclinic.org/disorders/dissociative_dis orders/hic_dissociative_identity_disorder_multiple_pers onality_disorder.aspx http://myclevelandclinic.org/disorders/dissociative_dis orders/hic_dissociative_identity_disorder_multiple_pers onality_disorder.aspx

13. Discussion How should various aspects of society (law, medicine, psychologists etc.) approach such a disorder like Dissociative Identity Disorder? Explain.