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Dissociative identity disorder From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation, search Not to be confused with Dissocial personality disorder...or personalities (known as alter egos or alters ), each with its own pattern of perceiving and interacting with the environment...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissociative_identity_disorder

Dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder, is characterized by ≥ 2 identities (called alters or self-states) that alternate...The disorder includes inability to recall important personal information relating to some of the identities. The cause is almost invariably overwhelming childhood trauma, and the...

http://www.merck.com/mmpe/sec15/ch197/ch197e.html

DID was previously called multiple personal disorder but in 1994 the name was changed to reflect the changes in understanding of the disorder. It involves a disturbance in identity whereby two or more separate personalities or identities, known as alters,...

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Nevertheless, as an adult, she was able to maintain control and appear to be an integrated person...association of multiple personality and temporolimbic epilepsy: Intracarotid amobarbital test observations. ... Introduction to temporal lobe epilepsy. ... Memory, amnesia, and dissociative identity...

http://www.priory.com/psych/did.htm

Each personality is unaware of any others...to minimize risk of future problems such as multiple personality disorder. ... Individual psychotherapy is most often the treatment of choice. Therapy focuses on helping the person...

http://www.medicineonline.com/articles/M/2/Multiple-Perso...

...book not only does just that, but most importantly, it consistantly exudes respect for the multiple as a whole as well as for each alter...field, and they offer concise and detailed information about how to treat patients with multiple personalities in in-patient and out-patient settings...

http://www.mhsanctuary.com/books/did.htm

...out there these days, but these are the ones that are our favorites because they are written to be helpful, and don't present multiplicity as total sufferers of "woa-is-me victimhood". ... It is our personal theory that families like this exist only in television and movies...

http://www.healthdiaries.com/blogs/pilgrim/archives/2007/07

Introduction A psychiatric disorder where there are two or more distinct personalities existing within one individual. ... The condition used to be known as multiple personality disorder. ... Protecting from Infection Germs are a fact of life and catching an infectious...

http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/d/dissociative_identity_dis...

Prompted by the unexpected flourishing of this extraordinary diagnosis, students often ask me whether multiple personality disorder (MPD) really exists. I usually reply that the symptoms attributed to it are as genuine as hysterical paralysis and seizures and teach us lessons already learned by...

http://www.psycom.net/mchugh.html

However, in the case of multiple personality disorder, each personality is separate from, and independent of, the others. Some people do not realise that they have the condition and, in some "pesonalities", may be unaware of the existence of their...

http://personalitydisorders.suite101.com/article.cfm/mult...