MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER

Multiple Personality Disorder

Multiple Personality Disorder

Introduction

Anxiety disorders are prevalent diagnoses and are associated with substantial life impairments. Prospective studies on the course of anxiety disorders suggest a chronic burden, with low rates of recovery that appear to be worsened by certain co-morbid psychiatric conditions. Factors that moderate the course of anxiety disorders, thereby reducing the probability of remission or increasing the likelihood for relapse, are an important focus for research. One such factor is the presence of a co-morbid multiple personality disorder (MPD). Research has identified increased clinical severity and decreased psychosocial functioning in patients with anxiety disorder when MPDs are co-morbid. However, research has not consistently identified negative outcomes in anxiety disorders co-morbid with MPDs. Although a prior study reported that co-occurring PDs moderated poorer outcome for panic disorder, a recent study found greater improvements in psychodynamic treatment of patients with panic disorder and cluster CPD co morbidity. In addition, it is unclear which specific PD diagnoses are associated with the prospective course of specific anxiety disorders. Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is usually given diagnosed in improved reminiscence cases, particularly when the suspected abuse is offensive and violent. Multiple personality disorder as mentioned in DSM-IV is termed as 'Dissociative Identity Disorder' and relate it as a position of having more the one character present in similar person. Multiple personality disorder is supposed to start with the early period of life and it is supposed to diagnose in women. There is no reliability given for this specific identification in DSM-III and DSM-IV research (Grant, 2005).

Many people believe that most individuals diagnosed with MPD were abused are children. A 'protector' character is said to emerge and take over for the child, who therefore escapes psychologically from the abuse. The child, overwhelmed by grief, learns to detach from the repeated abuse and MPD is therefore found in people with a history of severe physical or sexual abuse (Grant, 2005).

The theory is supported, however, is based only on reports of clinical cases and, in a topical review of the pragmatic prose on the long-standing possessions of sexual abuse among children, a reputable psychiatrist Beitchman lead to a close that as yet there is insufficient evidence to justify an association between childhood sexual abuse and multiple personality disorder. Frankel reviewed the literature on MPD and notes that adults' accounts of childhood abuse are rarely corroborated. He believes that MPD patients' recollections of abuse are influenced by the recent enthusiasm for adult discovery of childhood abuse along with cues from therapy, both with and without hypnosis (Grant, 2005).

Common among People

Even though it is found in the DSM-III-R and DSM-IV, MPD itself is controversial. Many clinicians and researchers believe that there is little empirical evidence supporting MPD and that it is heavily dependent upon educational influences for both its inception and its conclusion. Even jilt qualifies like a distinct psychiatric disorder, MPD is greatly over diagnosed.

At the time of the publication of The Three Faces of Eve by Thigpen and Cleckley ...