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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2007.
A discussion of the dissociative identity disorder and its symptoms.
1,002 words (approx. 4.0 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 35.95
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The paper explains that dissociative identity disorder is a psychological condition in which traumatic memories become disconnected from a person's normal awareness, or consciousness, thereby shielding the person from the pain or fear associated with the trauma. The paper explains that it causes the individual to experience her psyche/identity as disconnected or split into distinct parts. The paper lists the recognized types of dissociative disorders and the most common symptoms.
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"Dissociative disorders are uncommon, affecting an estimated 1 percent to 2 percent of the population. This kind of disorder affects females more often than males and most often begin whenever the abuse or traumatic event occurred (http://www.clevelandclinic.org/health/health-info/docs/2800/2819.asp?index=9786&src=news, 2002). Many have tried to give a full and much detailed definition on Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), because there have been an increasing number of reported cases of this 'illness'."
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2006.
An analysis of Dissociative Identity Disorder and its treatment.
2,516 words (approx. 10.1 pages), 5 sources, MLA, $ 76.95
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This paper examines the role of trauma in the etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) and some of the most successful treatments used to treat the disorder. The paper analyzes the disorder according to the DSM-IV, Sybil, and other articles of research.
Table of Contents:
DID According to the DSM-IV
Sybil's Story
In General: Treatment and Prognosis
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"Psychodynamically aware psychotherapy is the most commonly cited treatment orientation. Incorporating eclectic techniques, cognitive therapy methods can be modified to help patients explore and alter dysfunctional trauma-based belief systems; however, standard cognitive therapy protocols for depression and anxiety usually require modification when used in the treatment of DID. Most therapists employ hypnosis as a modality in the treatment of DID. The most common uses of hypnosis are for calming, soothing, containment, and ego strengthening. (Barach, 1994, para 12)"
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2007.
This paper studies the validity of dissociative identity disorder (DID).
1,797 words (approx. 7.2 pages), 5 sources, APA, $ 57.95
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The paper examines the studies done on early childhood trauma, amnesia and the multiple ego theories that prove the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID) empirically exists. The paper shows how DID is a valid disorder that needs more evaluation and clinical trials, but notes that there is a great deal of evidence already present that is significant for a diagnostic procedure for psychologists.
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"The first criterion for relating a diagnosis for Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is to define how the ego--not the personality--is the new phenomenon in psychological discourse on the subject. In recent years psychologists and researchers have moved away from defining DID as a personality related split within the psyche of the patient. This trend in research and definitive phenomenon for Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) has been negated by the introduction of the "ego states" as the foundation for new diagnostics perspectives in DID."
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2008.
An analysis of the aspects of dissociative identity disorder (DID) that make it difficult to diagnose.
1,821 words (approx. 7.3 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 58.95
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This paper analyzes whether dissociative identity disorder (DID), also known by its older designation to lay people as multiple personality disorder (MPD) or split personality, really exists. It discusses the disease's diagnosis and pathogenesis and the problems with differential diagnoses. The paper suggests that the diagnosis of DID should be guarded, preferably made as a diagnosis of exclusion. The paper also contains an annotated bibliography.
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"However, Merckelbach, Devilly and Rassin's review of the alters in DID effectively challenge the prevailing support for DID in calling into question the very nature of the claimed multiple personality. The authors sought a better definition of the multiple identities associated with DID. They assert that, as opposed to unconvincing evidence of the existence of alters ranging from acceptance due to their mutually exclusive memories to distinct documented physiological profiles (fMRI, EEG), these personalities can alternately be seen as emotional metaphors and escapist thought (Merckelbach, Devilly and Rassin 486-490). Needless to say, there is very little consensus among the psychiatric community on what the alters actually are, in large part due to the lack of a control group and a further lack of knowledge regarding memory function (Merckelbach, Devilly and Rassin 492). Furthermore, their research supports the claim in showing that there can be no absolutely reliable diagnosis of DID because the "personalities" themselves cannot be proven to be real alter-identities."
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2005.
An overview of the symptoms and diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder.
1,581 words (approx. 6.3 pages), 3 sources, MLA, $ 51.95
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This paper looks at dissociative identity disorder, also know as multiple personality disorder, one of the most controversial mental disorders and is subject to intense skepticism. It examines how the literature ranges from passionate discourses recognizing it as a real psychiatric disorder to equally passionate claims that it does not exist.
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"A proper diagnosis can be made only when the clinician determines that the person experiences alter personalities who can be identified and elicited. The clinician must "meet" at least one alter who is relatively enduring, recognized as unique in behavior, and assumes control from time to time. This process usually takes time, and the revelation may come not in the actual session with the clinician but in a telephone call by "a friend" or in a letter. Due to the nature of the disorder, it may be very difficult to obtain a history."
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2004.
This paper discusses Dissociative Identity Disorder, also referred to as Multiple Personality Disorder.
2,320 words (approx. 9.3 pages), 10 sources, MLA, $ 71.95
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This paper explains that, in Dissociative Identity Disorder, an individual?s identity dissociates, or fragments, creating additional identities that exist independently of each other within the individual, with each personality specifically distinct from the other in such characteristics as tone of voice, mannerisms, vocabulary, and posture. The author points out that the main personality, the one seeking psychiatric help, is called the 'host', although it generally is not the individual?s original personality, but rather one developed along the way. The paper reports that treatment mainly consists of psychotherapy using outpatient hypnosis with the goal to deconstruct the different personalities and to unite them into one, which takes from a minimum of three to five years, or six or more years for more complex patients.
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"Treatment of DID is a long and difficult process and success, the total integration of identity, is rare. One 1990 study found that roughly one-fourth, five of the twenty patients studied, were successfully treated. Treatment involves having DID patients recall childhood memories and often includes hypnosis to help the patient remember because the memories are often subconscious. There is need for caution however, as recovered memories can be so traumatic for the patient that they may cause more harm."
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2006.
This paper discusses disorders regarding the mechanism of dissociation, in which the mind separates or compartmentalizes certain unpleasant or painful memories or thoughts from normal consciousness.
2,646 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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In this article, the writer explains that dissociation is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment. The writer discusses that dissociative disorders interfere with a person's general functioning, including social relationships and work. In this paper, the writer focuses attention on the phenomenon of dissociate identity disorder (D.I.D.). The writer discusses causes of D.I.D. and possible responses. Further, the writer looks at related treatment or therapy.
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"The human brain stores traumatic memories differently from normal memories. Traumatic memories are dissociated or separated and can break into consciousness without warning and the person cannot control these memories. They do not combine with normal memories and, in time, these traumatic ones can change one's personality and develop dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder. Dissociative identity disorder or D.I.D. has several levels of severity and begins suddenly. It is a new phenomenon in the US and, as such, is often misdiagnosed. D.I.D. is considered the most severe form of all dissociative disorders. Causes of D.I.D. include an innate ability to dissociate easily, repeated and sever physical or sexual abuse in childhood, lack of supportive person who counteracts the abuse, and the influence of other relatives who already have the disorder or its symptoms."
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2007.
An examination of the changing conceptual framework of multiple personality disorder over the last 50 years.
1,386 words (approx. 5.5 pages), 3 sources, APA, $ 46.95
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This paper analyzes and reviews three articles about dissociative personality disorder in order to consider how the conceptual framework for this disorder has changed over the last 50 years. The three articles were read carefully and summarized for basic themes, definitions, and differences. The first article entitled "Multiple Personality Disorder" by W.S. Taylor and M.F. Martin, written in 1944, was one of the first works on this disorder. The next article, "The Osiris Complex," by Colin A. Ross, describes the condition as growing out of childhood abuse and psychological trauma. The third article, titled "Multiple Personality Disorder: Witchcraft Survives in the Twentieth Century," by August Piper, Jr points out some troublesome aspects of the illness, which include more alternate personalities than earlier researchers believed could exist. The reviewer concludes by stating that todays view of dissociative identity disorder is one personality divided into abnormally personified components.
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" An article titled "Multiple Personality Disorder" written in 1944 by Taylor & Martin was located for comparison to two articles written more recently, "The Osiris Complex: Case Studies in Multiple Personality Disorder" (Ross, 2000) and "Multiple Personality Disorder: Witchcraft Survives in the Twentieth Century" (Piper, 1998). The 1944 article is frequently cited in articles written since 1980 and is considered a seminal work. Because two strands of thought regarding the disorder exist today, it was necessary to compare the old article to two contrasting concepts as articulated in the two more recent articles. The three articles were read carefully and summarized for basic themes, definitions, and differences."
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Dissociative Disorders, 2005.
This paper discusses various categories of dissociative disorders: Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociative Amnesia, Dissociative Fugue and Depersonalization Disorder.
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This paper explains that dissociation is a defense mechanism against trauma, which helps remove victims of trauma from the experience at the time when it occurs, allowing them to delay working through the trauma. The author points out that the cause of dissociative identity disorder is unknown, but histories of patients diagnosed with this disorder indicate that a commonality is a traumatic event such as childhood physical or sexual abuse, commonly incestuous, the death of a close relative or friend during childhood or witnessing a trauma or a death. The paper relates that the symptoms of dissociative amnesia and fugue tend to disappear spontaneously; therapy can focus on the stressful factors, which may trigger an episode, or on treating accompanying depressive states.
Table of Contents
Categories
Dissociative Identity Disorder
History
Description
Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
Etiology
Psychodynamic Perspective
Behavioral Perspective
Treatment
Dissociative Amnesia
Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
Types of Dissociative Amnesia
Etiology
Dissociative Fugue
Etiology
Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
Treatment of Dissociative Amnesia and Fugue
Depersonalization Disorder
Etiology
Diagnostic Criteria (DSM-IV)
Treatment
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"Different parts of the personality are alternately allowed to be expressed or remain repressed at any one time. They cannot coexist due to the intense anxiety that would result. Therefore, each is sealed off from the others. You might think of a rock being split in many pieces and each separate piece forming its own space that becomes sealed off from the other pieces. It is believed that the split occurs because the child who is exposed to a traumatic event and unable to escape dissociates and takes on other personalities to cope with the pain. It is also believed that person's who are susceptible to hypnosis are more likely to develop this disorder when exposed to severe trauma."
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2005.
A discussion on dissociative identity disorder.
1,059 words (approx. 4.2 pages), 8 sources, MLA, $ 37.95
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The paper defines dissociative identity disorder (DID). It examines alternative personalities, providing examples of typical types of alternative personalities. The author explores DID's symptoms and effects and in conclusion discusses the possibility of discovering a cure for a well recognized disorder.
Works Cited
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"Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID, is a mental condition in which a single person believes that he or she contains two or more alters that co-exist independently from one another. Until 1994, DID was called Multiple Personality Disorder. The name was changed to reflect a better understanding of the disease, which is characterized by a fragmentation of identity rather than a multiplication of separate identities."
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Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2006.
This paper discusses disorders regarding the mechanism of dissociation, in which the mind separates or compartmentalizes certain unpleasant or painful memories or thoughts from normal consciousness.
2,646 words (approx. 10.6 pages), 4 sources, APA, $ 79.95
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In this article, the writer explains that dissociation is a disruption in the usually integrated functions of consciousness, memory, identity or perception of the environment. The writer discusses that dissociative disorders interfere with a person's general functioning, including social relationships and work. In this paper, the writer focuses attention on the phenomenon of dissociate identity disorder (D.I.D.). The writer discusses causes of D.I.D. and possible responses. Further, the writer looks at related treatment or therapy.
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"The human brain stores traumatic memories differently from normal memories. Traumatic memories are dissociated or separated and can break into consciousness without warning and the person cannot control these memories. They do not combine with normal memories and, in time, these traumatic ones can change one's personality and develop dissociative identity disorder or multiple personality disorder. Dissociative identity disorder or D.I.D. has several levels of severity and begins suddenly. It is a new phenomenon in the US and, as such, is often misdiagnosed. D.I.D. is considered the most severe form of all dissociative disorders. Causes of D.I.D. include an innate ability to dissociate easily, repeated and sever physical or sexual abuse in childhood, lack of supportive person who counteracts the abuse, and the influence of other relatives who already have the disorder or its symptoms."
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Textbooks on the Subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder, 2001.
A Comparison of Three Textbooks on the Subject of Dissociative Identity Disorder: "Psychology" By John W. Santrack, "Essentials of Abnormal Psychology in a Changing World" By Jeffrey S. Nevid & Beverly Greene and "Abnormal P..."
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This paper takes a brief look at these three books, including differences in style and approach to their subject matter.
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"All three of the textbooks I compared offer different perspectives on the subject of dissociative identity disorder (DID), but are similar in many ways. One of the ways in which the textbooks are the same is in the way that dissociative identity disorder is defined."
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Dissociative Disorders and the Self, 2002.
An analysis of the general theory of the development of dissociative disorders.
1,187 words (approx. 4.7 pages), 6 sources, MLA, $ 40.95
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This paper provides an insight into dissociative disorders and dissociative identity disorder (DID, or formerly called multiple personality disorder)and the separation of mental processes such as memory or consciousness that are normally integrated. It discusses how through the analysis of several findings and theories regarding dissociative disorder, the close connection between development of dissociative disorders and the self can be observed. It shows how the most significant implication might be that, in childhood, circumstances that create a conflict in the self undermine healthy development of the self and personalities and how in the worst cases, this conflict possibly leads to dissociative disorders as intrafamilial abuse exemplifies.
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"Dissociative disorders have intrigued not only mental professionals but also the public with their extraordinary symptoms. In fact, there are a number of books and movies that deal with dissociative disorders such as the famous book by Thigpen and Cleckley (1957), ?The Three Faces of Eve,? which later became a motion picture. Dissociative disorders are characterized by ?persistent, maladaptive disruptions in the integration of memory, consciousness, or identity? (Oltmanns & Emery, 2001). Due to the limited methodology to empirically test dissociative disorders, the entire concept of these psychological disorders is still controversial, and researchers can only offer theoretical ideas about how they work and are developed."
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Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Disorder, 2004.
An overview of conduct disorder and antisocial disorder.
5,625 words (approx. 22.5 pages), 21 sources, APA, $ 199.95
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This paper presents a general overview and discussion of the psychological disorders known as Conduct Disorder and Antisocial Disorder. The paper presents definitions of both disorders and discusses several aspects associated with these disorders including diagnosis, prevalence, general etiology, risk factors, genetic and biological causes, symptoms of each disorder and need for interventions.
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"This research paper presents conduct disorder and antisocial disorder. Related to conduct disorder the following are discussed: definition, diagnosis, prevalence, general etiology and risk factors, genetic and biological causes and risk factors, disorder onset as a risk factor, familial and racial risk factors, childhood risk behaviors, developmental progression, course and consequences and assessment, treatment and forensic issues. Related to antisocial disorder the following are discussed: definition, diagnosis, prevalence, general etiology and risk factors, genetic and biological causes and risk factors..."
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Anxiety Disorder and Panic Disorder: The Light at the End of the Tunnel, 2002.
This paper discusses research on anxiety and panic disorders combining personal experience and statistics, causes, descriptions, and treatments of the disorders.
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The author begins the paper with an account of a panic attack he suffered. He then goes into the definition of panic disorder and the similar disorder anxiety disorder. He lists the symptoms, treatment, and general statistics of the two disorders. Paper includes pie graph with explanation of the statistics.
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"According to the National Institute of Mental Health, Panic Disorder is characterized by unexpected and repeated episodes of intense fear accompanied by physical symptoms that may include chest pain, heart palpitations, shortness of breath, dizziness or abdominal distress (Facts). The first panic attack is usually the worst, especially if it is accompanied by severe physical symptoms. It is very similar to a heart attack, and since a person's mind goes into complete induced chaos and fear during such an attack people tend to think the worst, that the end is coming. Panic Disorder is a kind of severe anxiety disorder."
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