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Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) &
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID):
All sides to the debate
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Quotations:
"Down with skepticism, up with awareness." Label on a button at
a MPD conference.
"Every MPD patient in the country owes a personal debt of
gratitude to Buddy [Braun]. He's the first ever to get a unit set up for
these people, and all the other units around the country follow the trail he
has blazed." M. Keenan, New City article, 1995-JUN-22: "The
Devil and Dr. Braun." 1
"...students often ask me whether
multiple personality disorder (MPD) really exists. I usually reply that
the symptoms attributed to it are as genuine as hysterical paralysis and
seizures." Dr. Paul McHugh
A "creature of the consulting room which patients and therapists
manufacture." Description of MPD by a member of the British False
Memory Society.
" I have this head shrinker and he says...[MPD is]...deliberately
induced because the CIA is where they started inducing it when after
they brought all the Nazis over from Germany to run American Psychiatric
Association....It is all mind control and all kinds of things to invent
people with multiple personalities.... I believe the government has
implanted some kind of a chip into my head where... [my thoughts are]
monitored by Barbara Walters and these other women. And they take
all my ideas...I think [Oprah] sits with her finger on the switch to the
chip....several times I wondered if I had multiple personality disorder.
In fact, or if I was just from another planet." Roseanne on
the Larry King Show, 2001-AUG-16
Some material in the essays linked to this menu may seem to read like a really bad work of
fantasy-fiction. You might suspect that the author has dissociated from reality. However,
we assure you that sincere, intelligent and caring people really do hold these beliefs.
They learn and teach them at seminars and conferences, and use them during therapy and
exorcisms. One result is many patients/clients who enter therapy with minor
emotional problems
become convinced that their minds have been fractured into many personalities.
Many become emotionally disabled and unable to function as workers,
spouses and parents. A few have committed suicide.
The International Society for the Study of Dissociation has a web
site at: http://www.issd.org/ Its
official publication is the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. See:
http://www.issd.org/indexpage/jtdauthorsinfo.html There are allegations
that the ISSD controls the content of the The Journal of Psychiatry & Law
(JPSLA). These are not to be mistaken for the The Journal of the
American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law or International Journal of
Law and Psychiatry."
Russ Dewey, "Reasons for Caution about Diagnosis of MPD / DID,"
Psych Web, at:
http://www.psywww.com/