DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER AND ITS CONTROVERSY There is major controversy over dissociative identity disorder, despite its new research it has come across, people are still arguing whether it is real or not. Even with the evidence of dissociative identity disorder, there are people that argue the fact against this evidence. Especially there are many psychologists that believe dissociative identity disorder to be clinician induced. Although, there have been cases where someone would be faking their disorder, to get away with bad behavior which reinforces the doubts of many experts. There is a fear of someone accusing someone of abuse that may not have happened, as they regain repressed memories and some believe these memories to be fake
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There is a link with traumatic experiences and dissociation (Jacobson, Fox, Bell, Zeligman & Graham, 2015). Dissociative identity disorder is complex and within the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders dissociative disorders are located after the trauma- and stressor-related disorders so acknowledging the relationship between the two. It is far more complex than some experts seem to believe. Dissociative identity disorder may be overlooked because of the complex symptomology and mistaken for something else (Brand, Sar, Stavropoulos, Krüger, Korzekwa, Martínez-Taboas., & Middleton, …show more content…
There have been times where there are people that are within the mental health system for an extended amount of time and having diagnosis after diagnosis but does not truly gets their correct diagnosis of what they have until they have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, which is what they truly have. So perhaps there are many people outside of North America that are misdiagnosed and that is the result of the low rates of diagnosis outside of the united states. Many dissociative disorders cases are dismissed (Brand, B., et al., 2016). Despite this, it is found that clinicians tend to over diagnose psychiatric disorders, and individuals with dissociative disorder tend to encounter higher rates of psychiatric comorbidity (Bozkurt, 2015). A major cause for this dismissal of
There is a link with traumatic experiences and dissociation (Jacobson, Fox, Bell, Zeligman & Graham, 2015). Dissociative identity disorder is complex and within the fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders dissociative disorders are located after the trauma- and stressor-related disorders so acknowledging the relationship between the two. It is far more complex than some experts seem to believe. Dissociative identity disorder may be overlooked because of the complex symptomology and mistaken for something else (Brand, Sar, Stavropoulos, Krüger, Korzekwa, Martínez-Taboas., & Middleton, …show more content…
There have been times where there are people that are within the mental health system for an extended amount of time and having diagnosis after diagnosis but does not truly gets their correct diagnosis of what they have until they have been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, which is what they truly have. So perhaps there are many people outside of North America that are misdiagnosed and that is the result of the low rates of diagnosis outside of the united states. Many dissociative disorders cases are dismissed (Brand, B., et al., 2016). Despite this, it is found that clinicians tend to over diagnose psychiatric disorders, and individuals with dissociative disorder tend to encounter higher rates of psychiatric comorbidity (Bozkurt, 2015). A major cause for this dismissal of