Review of Assessment and Treatment of Multiple Personality and Dissociative Disorders.

1992 ◽  
Vol 37 (11) ◽  
pp. 1221-1221
Author(s):  
Colin Ross
Keyword(s):  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Multiple Personality ◽  
Assessment And Treatment

Dissosiativ identitetsforstyrrelse i utredning av barn og ungdom: Teori og kliniske utfordringer

2021 ◽  
Vol 58 (8) ◽  
pp. 672-680
Keyword(s):  
Clinical Practice ◽  
Relevant Literature ◽  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Cognitive Difficulties ◽  
Dissociative Symptoms ◽  
Literature Searches ◽  
Adequate Understanding ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Trauma Model ◽  
Practice Methods

Background: Clinical practice and recent research indicate that dissociative symptoms and disorders are left unidentified and undiagnosed by health professionals. Based on a clinical case from our work setting, this article describes relevant literature regarding dissociation and dissociative disorders to add to the knowledge of the theoretical and phenomenological features of complex dissociative disorders. Further, we describe differential diagnostic challenges that may arise in clinical practice. Methods: Both systematic and non-systematic literature searches were performed. Findings: Recent research shows the Trauma model to be central to understanding dissociative disorders. Symptoms can be mistaken for cognitive difficulties, oppositional issues or other somatic symptoms. Quantitative measures, systematic observations and clinical evaluations are fundamental for identifying dissociative symptoms and disorders. Implications: There is potential for identifying and evaluating dissociative symptoms at an earlier stage. Interdisciplinary and differential diagnostic evaluations are crucial to provide adequate understanding, assessment, and treatment of these patients. Keywords: Dissociative identity disorder, dissociation, somnambulism, biopsychosocial framework, clinical practice

scholarly journals Somatoform and dissociative disorders: assessment and treatment

1997 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
David Gill ◽  
Christopher Bass
Keyword(s):  
Somatoform Disorders ◽  
Physical Symptoms ◽  
Heterogeneous Group ◽  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Loss Of Function ◽  
Physical Disease ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
Icd 10

The category ‘somatoform disorders' was introduced comparatively recently in DSM–III and thereafter in ICD–10: it is the umbrella term currently favoured to cover a heterogeneous group of interrelated and overlapping syndromes, which have been given many names over the years. All these syndromes have in common the process of somatisation: that is, the presence of physical symptoms unexplained by physical disease, with variable degrees of distress and loss of function, about which the patient consults doctors.

Use of the MMPI with Multiple Personality Patients

1983 ◽  
Vol 53 (3) ◽  
pp. 1004-1006 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Psychiatric Ward ◽  
Multiple Personality ◽  
Adult Inpatient

The MMPI was administered to the primary personality of each of the 18 multiple personality patients who had been hospitalized on an adult inpatient psychiatric ward at the UCLA Neuropsychiatric Institute over the 10-yr. period from January 1972 to January 1982. Three MMPI profiles were 4-8 codetypes, three profiles were 2-8/8-2 codetypes, three profiles were various other codetypes, and six of the profiles were invalid due to extremely high F scales. The remaining three patients refused to cooperate with the administration of the MMPI. This study helped clarify issues in using the MMPI in patients with dissociative disorders.

scholarly journals Dissociative Disorders

Psychology ◽  
2015 ◽  
Author(s):  
Steven Jay Lynn ◽  
Reed Maxwell ◽  
Anne Malaktaris ◽  
Colleen Cleere ◽  
Peter Lemons ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Multiple Personality Disorder ◽  
Sources Of Information ◽  
The Public ◽  
Cultural Variables ◽  
Dissociative Amnesia ◽  
Assessment And Treatment ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Media ◽  
Contemporary Study

From the seminal writing of Pierre Janet (b. 1859–d. 1947) to the present, dissociative disorders have fascinated, puzzled, and provoked controversy among scientists and clinicians, while providing fodder for sensationalized accounts in the public domain. This article will steer readers toward the best sources of information about dissociative disorders at both introductory and advanced levels, with readings often representing divergent perspectives regarding dissociation and dissociative psychopathology. The dissociative disorders have stirred much attention and contentiousness in the scientific community because their presentation is often perplexing, dramatic, and variable across and within individuals. Readers will be able to use the bibliography to understand the historical underpinnings of current conceptualizations of dissociation; the symptoms and characteristics of major dissociative disorders, including depersonalization/derealization disorder, dissociative amnesia, and dissociative identity disorder (DID, formerly called multiple personality disorder); the prevalence of dissociative disorders in clinical and nonclinical populations; the major theoretical divides that splinter the contemporary study of dissociation and encompass competing notions (the idea that the genesis of dissociation is closely linked with a history of trauma versus the idea that serious dissociative disorders can be accounted for in terms of social and cultural variables, such as the influence of the media and suggestive approaches in psychotherapy in shaping symptoms); and the assessment and treatment of dissociative disorders. References will be provided that touch on potential biological etiologies of dissociative disorders, the role of sleep in dissociation, and topics including memory in dissociative disorders.

Differential Diagnosis of the Multiple Personality

1982 ◽  
Vol 51 (3_suppl) ◽  
pp. 1187-1194 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert S. Solomon ◽  
Vicki Solomon
Keyword(s):  
Differential Diagnosis ◽  
Borderline Personality Disorder ◽  
Personality Disorder ◽  
Temporal Lobe Epilepsy ◽  
Temporal Lobe ◽  
Borderline Personality ◽  
Dissociative Disorders ◽  
Multiple Personality

The diagnosis of multiple personality is difficult and complicated. The differential diagnosis includes temporal lobe epilepsy, schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, malingering, and other dissociative disorders. Psychometric research is needed to sharpen detection of multiple personality.

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