The Rise and Fall of Dissociative Identity Disorder : The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease

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The Rise and Fall of Dissociative Identity Disorder

Paris, Joel MD

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Department of Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

Send reprint requests to Joel Paris, MD, Department of Psychiatry, Sir Mortimer B. Davis-Jewish General Hospital, McGill University, 4333 cote Ste. Catherine, Montreal, Quebec, H3T1E4, Canada. E-mail: [email protected].

The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 200(12):p 1076-1079, December 2012. | DOI: 10.1097/NMD.0b013e318275d285

Abstract

Dissociative identity disorder (DID), once considered rare, was frequently diagnosed during the 1980s and 1990s, after which interest declined. This is the trajectory of a medical fad. DID was based on poorly conceived theories and used potentially damaging treatment methods. The problem continues, given that the DSM-5 includes DID and accords dissociative disorders a separate chapter in its manual.

© 2012 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc.

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