s possibly my mother. Neither one of us has been diagnosed yet, and might never be, but I thought it would be informative and interesting to learn more about the causes and treatment of the disorder. In addition, I think I will benefit from this knowledge due to the fact that I may go on to treat patients with this disorder someday. Dissociative Identity Disorder can be looked at from many angles, in terms of environment, brain chemistry, heredity, upbringing, and socialization. I will discuss the history, causes, and treatment of this anomalous disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder was formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder until the American Psychology Association changed it in 1994 replacing DSM-III-R with DSM-IV (Allison, 1998). The explanation for t
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