Multiple personality disorder
Multiple Personality Disorder is the old name of Dissociative Identity Disorder,[1] which has been described in the DSM psychiatric manual since its first edition. The term Multiple Personality Disorder was used from 1980 (in the DSM-III) until the 1994 DSM-IV revision was published.[2] The name was changed in the DSM psychiatric manual because there aren't actually multiple personalities in Dissociative Identity Disorder and it is also not a personality disorder. Every person has one personality and every person has different parts to their personality. In DID, they have never integrated and formed one unified personality, and amnesia also exists between the different parts.[3][4]
The older ICD-10 manual still refers to it as Multiple Personality Disorder,[5] but the ICD-11 will refer to it as dissociative identity disorder.
References[edit]
- ^ International Society for the Study. Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, volume 12, issue 2, 28 February 2011, page 115–187. (doi:10.1080/152947)
- ^ American Psychiatric Association, (1994). Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders:DSM-IV. .
- ^ Merck Manual Dissociative Identity Disorder.
- ^ Howell, E.F. (2011). . . New York: Routledge
- ^ World Health Organization. (2012). International classification of diseases 10th revision.Retrieved May 4, 2013, from http://apps.who.int/classifications/icd10/browse/2010/en#/F44
