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    In the past a lot of people has mistaking the Dissociative identity disorder often manifest as behaviors that appear as a spirit or other supernatural being has taken control of the person. In most case in the culture people think the DID victim as the demotic behavior or a victim of possession and usually send them church and priest to heal them. The first documented case of DID was in 1584. Even though it was not labeled as DID at that time, Jeanne Fery recorded her exorcism in detail.…

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    “Dissociation is the common response of children to repetitive, overwhelming trauma and holds the untenable knowledge out of awareness. The losses and the emotions engendered by the assaults on soul and body cannot, however be held indefinitely. In the absence of effective restorative experiences, the reactions to trauma will find expression. As the child gets older, he will turn the rage in upon himself or act it out on others, else it all will turn into madness.” ― Judith Spencer, Satan's High…

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    Dissociative Identity Disorder There are many disorders in the world, but one of the less common ones is dissociative identity disorder or also formerly known as multiple personalities. Dissociative Identity Disorder is a failure to integrate various aspects of a person’s identity, which can cause a person to put their different personalities into two or more identities. There are many factors that contribute to dissociative identity disorder such as the causes, symptoms, diagnosing the disorder…

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    Introduction Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder, is one of the most contentious and controversial pathologies in the field of mental health. With less than 3% of the population having Dissociative Identity Disorder, as well as a high comorbidity with other mental disorders, Dissociative Identity Disorder is very difficult to diagnose and to treat. Even within the psychological and medical communities, there is some dissension between scholars as to…

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    understanding, is a complex condition that is most likely caused by trauma during someone’s childhood. Only two percent of the population experiences DID and is more likely to occur in women than men. Dissociative identity disorder involves a severe dissociation,which leads to a lack of connection between time, memories, ideas, feelings and actions. The act of dissociating is thought to be used as a coping mechanism in the brain. This allows the subject to disconnect from their situation that is…

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    The mind is a powerful thing. It can change a person’s way of seeing the world, tasting, feeling, smelling, and hearing. It has the ability to change every sense that we use to experience the world around us. Dissociative Identity Disorder is where a person has more than one identity. They can show symptoms such as mood swings, amnesia, self-destructive behavior and more mental issues. This disorder changes the way the patient perceives the world in the way that each identity is different. One…

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    We all have different sides to us that change when we’re around family, friends, co-workers or even our significant other. But which one of those is the real us? Maybe it’s none of those; maybe it’s who we are when we’re alone. When we’re surrounded by certain people our personality shifts, not a significant amount, but we change. We can be calm, quite, goody two shoes with family and co-workers, but with friends we’re the craziest, most daring one in the group, and then with our significant…

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    emphasized the disruption of a person 's identity. The big reason for the change was to clear up the people 's misconception that rose from the name, multiple personality disorder, which carried the allusion of having more than one personality. Dissociation describes the disconnection between things that are associated with each other. This disorder is portrayed by "switching" to alternate identities. Dissociative…

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    The Secret Window movie is a 2004 American psychological thriller which displays the issue of split personality of the main character. In the movie the writer Mort Rainey played by Johnny Depp is going through a divorce from his spouse. He moves to upstate New York to his cabin to be alone. Rainey is trying to stay mentally healthy but instead he is being harassed by John Shooter who claims Rainey plagiarized his work. Rainey ignores the strange man at first but then a series of events start…

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    Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Study on Aaron Stampler in Primal Fear The movie Primal Fear explores the journey of defense attorney, Martin Vail, as he defends his client, Aaron Stampler. Aaron is charged with murdering the Archbishop of the Catholic Church in Chicago and appears to be just a young altar boy with a speech impediment. Throughout the movie it is made clear that the Archbishop wasn’t the saint that he seemed to be and instead had a multiple of skeletons hidden in his closet.…

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