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Dissociative Disorders
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Sadly, psychiatric training still includes far too little on the very serious psychiatric sequelae of childhood trauma, especially CSA [child sexual abuse]. There is inadequate recognition within mental health services of the prevalence and importance of Dissociative Disorders, sufferers of which are frequently misdiagnosed as Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD), or, in the cases of DID, schizophrenia.
This is to some extent understandable as some of the features of DID appear superficially t
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― Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
― Attachment, Trauma and Multiplicity: Working with Dissociative Identity Disorder
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A few days later, I waited outside Dr. Brandenberg's door and realized that I was tired of excusing the medical community for "not knowing anything about multiples." MPD had been recognized as a disorder for at least a hundred years. It had been brought to the attention of the professional and public communities through Three Faces of Eve in the 1950s and again by Sybil in the 1970s. Literature related to the disorder had snowballed in the clinical journals.
I could understand that not every m
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― The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
― The Flock: The Autobiography of a Multiple Personality
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