Psychology / Unit 12 Psych 1375 short lesson, about 20 seconds
Dissociative Identity Disorder
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The idea
Dissociative identity disorder involves two or more distinct personality states with gaps in recall of everyday events.
In practice
A person cannot account for periods of time during which others report they behaved as someone else.
Where people slip
The diagnosis is genuinely contested, with disagreement over whether it arises from trauma or from clinical suggestion.
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