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Norfolk Eastern Daily Press

New DVD on Dissociative Identity Disorder
Norfolk Eastern Daily Press
Now referred to as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), the theory is that the brain's response to deeply disturbing trauma or abuse in childhood is to create different identities, which have no knowledge of what is too emotionally painful for an ...


PsychCentral.com

People with rich fantasy lives may be susceptible to dissociative identity ...
News-Medical.net
Scientific research has shed new light on dissociative symptoms and dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder. This condition seems to arise most often when a vulnerable person meets a therapist with a suggestive ...
Sleep Problems May Play Role in DissociationPsychCentral.com

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Dissociation: a valid concept?
British Journal of Psychiatry
I was saddened by Harold Merskey's review of the second edition of Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder (edited by Valerie Sinason). 1 My sadness was not primarily caused by his critical assessment of some of ...

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Straight.com

When the Devil Knocks powerfully depicts multiple personalities
Straight.com
By Adrian Mack, February 7, 2012 The broadcast of When the Devil Knocks on the Knowledge Network tonight (February 7) comes at a time when the dispute over the validity of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is on the boil again.


Press-Register - al.com

Day 2 of hearing for confessed murderer
WALA-TV FOX10
“He suffers from paranoid schizophrenia and probable DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder )," Rosenzweig said. Rosenzweig said that some doctors don't believe in DID and do wouldn't look for it. According to the National Association of Mental Illness, ...
Jeremy Bentley has multiple personalities, schizophrenia, psychologist testifiesal.com (blog)

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Review: Secret Selves, a book by Jamie Johnson
Montreal Gazette (blog)
As if that wasn't enough, fate handed Jamie another challenge in the form of a son with Dissociative Identity Disorder: he had five alternate personalities. Secret Selves is very much a story about a mom and how she copes with her two children who ...


Abortion Is Not Like Rape
Harvard Crimson
Not when rape can cause or is linked to sexually transmitted diseases, flashbacks, eating disorders, sleeping disorders, self-harm, depression, suicide, Stockholm syndrome, borderline personality disorder, and dissociative identity disorder.

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NFL legend looks to help Army tackle behavioral health stigma
United States Army (press release)
Walker suffers from what is known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, or DID. It is more commonly known as multiple personality disorder. "Sometimes we forget just how tough life really is," said Walker. "Sometimes we think that life is roses.


Nicki Minaj Called 'Possessed' After Grammy Performance
Religion Dispatches (blog)
These personalities are not a form of dissociative identity disorder, but rather a coping mechanism she developed to deal with a troubled home life. Instead of experiencing her domestic troubles as Onika Maraj (her legal name), she found it more ...

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Science fair project takes Lewisburg Middle School teen to Florida
DeSoto Appeal
With her topic of dissociation, she will attend An Infinite Mind's "Healing Together," an educational and support conference on dissociative identity disorder, more recognized as multiple personality disorder. "What (dissociation) basically means ...