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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WHY SOME CLINICIANS REFUSE TO ACKNOWLEDGE DID
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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ALTERS ARE NOT THE PATHOLOGY
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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Misdiagnosing DID
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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The Failure to Acknowledge – Comparing Abuse in the Military and Childhood Trauma
In my books, Engaging Multiple Personalities Volume 1 and 2, I briefly discuss the fact that PTSD was not really acknowledged until the military was overwhelmed with veterans suffering from…
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