Colin Ross, a pioneer and authority on DID, proposes to consider DID as a type of schizophrenia with dissociative features. He made this decision because “two thirds of people with…
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This is a short theoretical and philosophical discussion concerning whether or not there is any difference between DID and Schizophrenia in terms of classification, diagnosis or treatment. There are not…
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I previously posted on the danger of diagnosing a mental disorder based on clinical symptomatology alone. In that post, I discussed my own failure to diagnose DID in a patient…
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Many years ago, a fellow psychiatrist courteously wrote and explained why he disagreed with my therapeutic approach of speaking to the alters. He clearly considered this an error that would…
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Psychiatric diagnoses are based on clinical features rather than laboratory tests as in organic pathologies. For example, a patient presenting with a fever might have a common cold, a kidney…
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