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Multiple Personalities Disorder
Dissociative Identity Disorder
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WHAT IS DISSOCIATION?
Dissociation is a mental process, which produces
a lack of connection in a person's thoughts,
memories, feelings, actions, or sense of
identity.
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What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?

• Symptoms
• Displaying 2 or more personalities
• Anxiety disorders
• Schizophrenic and mood psychoses
• Depression
• Manifestations of anxiety (sweating, rapid
  pulse, palpitations)
• Phobias
• Sexual dysfunction

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Etiology
Biological Perspective Poisoning In history,
personality could be altered by poisoning.
Chemicals such as mercury that were used to paste
hats, could seep through the pores and affect
the brain. Brain Disease Strokes can have a
major effect on personality, it can mellow out
someone or it can do the opposite.
Learning Perspective Conditioning The learning
perspective states that conditioning throughout a
persons life is what causes disorders in
personality. If someone is taught to be good at
sports or more outgoing than s/he really are,
then other aspects of their personality could
come to life as a multiple personality disorder.
Cognitive Perspective Multiple Intelligences
Howard Gardner theorizes that every human has
seven different ways of knowing. This influences
multiple personalities disorder since the
different ways of knowing can create different
approaches to life that cannot be fused into one
personality.
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Treatments
Biological Perspective Drugs are the solution
according to the biological perspective. Since
this disorder is seen as a result of some
chemical imbalance or defective genes, biological
psychologists believe that chemicals can help
improvement of this disorder.
Learning Perspective According to the learning
perspective, personality is formed by
conditioning. Multiple personalities can be cured
by conditioning the person to act one way and
have one personality. Systematic desensitization
would work in some cases, but really the most
effective method is to teach the person to act a
certain way. If they have been pressured to be
different throughout their lives, a psychologist
could make the person learn that they should be
the way they are.
Cognitive Perspective DID is supposed to be
caused by a persons perception and cognition of
the world that surrounds him/her. Usually the
disorder is caused by ones efficacy and desire
to be better. Multiple personalities are induced
by low self esteem and a persons desire to be
different, for example a conservative person
could have a wild, outgoing persona. In order to
treat the disorder, cognitive psychologists
believe that self efficacy can help, by showing a
person that others can feel good with the way
they are, the person might learn to appreciate
him/herself.