This book discusses dissociative disorders, such as depersonalization disorder and dissociative identity disorder, controversies over whether dissociative identity disorder is misunderstood, and personal narratives of people affected with these disorders.
General Note
Includes chronology.
Includes glossary.
Content Note
Understanding dissociative disorders - An overview of dissociative disorders / Rebecca J. Frey and Emily Jane Willingham - Depersonalization disorder causes a person to feel detached from self / Batul Nafisa Baxamusa - Dissociative fugue is amnesia combined with sudden travel away from home / Sulav Shrestha - In people with dissociative identity disorder, separate personalities alternate / Veronica Pamoukaghlian - Controversies concerning dissociative disorders - Dissociative identity disorder is widely misunderstood / Margarita Tartakovsky - Some psychologists disagree with the prevailing view of dissociative identity disorder / Robert T. Carroll - The assumptions of dissociative identity disorder proponents have been scientifically discredited / Carol Tavris - Whatever the nature of dissociative identity disorder, it is a serious mental illness / Charles Raison - People who function well with multiple personalities should not be considered ill / Anthony Temple - Experts disagree about whether dissociative amnesia can occur after child abuse / Robert J. Cordy - The definitions of the dissociative disorders may soon be changed / Paul - Personal narratives - A college student describes what dissociative depersonalization feels like / TwentyHundredHeartbeats - An attorney tells how she learned to deal with dissociative identity disorder / Olga Trujillo - A writer describes his experience with depersonalization disorder / Jeffrey Abugel - A woman recalls living with multiple personalities / Karen Overhill, as told to Anne Underwood - A woman explains how false memories led her to believe she had multiple personality disorder / Lauri.