Kenneth Orne Case Study

caused him to repress any very hurtful memories that he would have endured from neglect that he felt from his father. Kenneth could be repressing memories that a typical father and son would experience from a standard relationship, but was unable to due to neglect, this could have been very emotionally harming causing him to repress it upon his father 's death. In addition to his father 's neglect, Kenneth would not have been able to secure a nurturing bond with his mother if he always felt inadequate by her wanting to control all aspects of his life. Kenneth 's childhood would have been filled with painful memories he would have viewed as traumatizing creating Steve, a personality whose focus is to deal with these memories and have a response …show more content…
Dr. John Watkins had diagnosed Kenneth with having multiple personality disorder after he had after hypothesizing him and seeing Steve. The court to had a second expert examine Kenneth, Dr Ralph Allison, who was also convinced he had DID. Eventually a third psychologist, Dr Martin Orne, evaluated Kenneth and concluded that Kenneth was faking. Dr Martin Orne made this conclusion after Kenneth had produced Billy, a third identity. Kenneth eventually told the court he was lying and agreed to testify against Angelo, so he would be spared the death …show more content…
Kenneth was always having random moments when growing up where he would display bursts of anger, he was an aspiring police officer who was getting fired for stealing from jobs. Kenneth even was working as a psychologist at one point, he had an office and was working with clients. Kenneth proclaimed to have cancer and was unable to work. These traits display identities acting as NIS and TIS within Kenneth. Kenneth did display other personalities while under hypnosis, but his subconscious mind would have known he was being interrogated by police releasing his best defense mechanism for the situation at the time, Steve. Even in the documentary Multiple Personality Disorder: The Search for Deadly Memories, when the patient was confronted with their trauma they produced the best defense for the situation she was in, same would go for Kenneth. Kenneth may have admitted to lying about the disorder after the expert called him a fraud, but he was facing the death penalty by continuing with his claim of mental illness, a reasonable person, or personality, would say anything to save their own life. Dissociative identity disorder can display other personalities that appear out of random all the time just like in Multiple Personality Disorder: The Search for Deadly Memories and the multiple cases followed within the