Description of Disorder
Dissociation that influences the development of alters (between identities) is done to escape the physical and/or emotional pain of ___ (Jennings, 2024)
What is trauma?
A feeling that you may be disconnected from your thoughts, feelings, memories, and surroundings.
What is dissociation?
Dissociative Identity Disorder can be treated with a type of therapy through talk, which helps people identify and change troubling thoughts, emotions, and behaviors.
What is psychotherapy?
___________ theories: Abnormal behavior results from trauma, bereavement, or chronic stress.
What is psychological? (Jennings, 2024)
Severe and repeated experiences of this, often in early childhood, are considered the primary cause of Dissociative identity disorder.
What is trauma? ( Patel, 2025)
Dissociative Identity Disorder can cause gaps in memory where memories may not transfer from one identity to another (Cleveland Clinic, n.d.).
What is amnesia?
A state of mind in which the self appears unreal. Individuals feel estranged from themselves and usually from the external world
What is depersonalization?
Therapy that can educate family members about DID and gives the patient a supportive family environment.
What is family therapy (Saxena, Tote, & Sapkale, 2023)?
Which theorists developed psychoanalysis? Which refers to a theory of personality and psychopathology, a method of investigating the mind, and a form of treatment for psychopathology.
Who is Sigmund Freud? (Jennings, 2024).
The development of multiple identities in DID is believed to be a coping mechanism for managing overwhelming stress and distressing experiences during this stage of life?
What is early childhood? ( Patel, 2025)
A mental health condition where you have two or more separate personalities that control your behavior at different times (Cleveland Clinic, n.d.).
What is Dissociative Identity Disorder?
Presence of two or more distinct personalities or identities - differences in voice, mannerisms, and even physical characteristics between identities - each identity might have its own name, personal history, and characteristics
What is identity alteration?
This treatment is used to access and integrate traumatic memories and can help facilitate communication between alters
What is hypnotherapy (Saxena, Tote, & Sapkale, 2023)?
This psychological theory suggests that DID develops as a way to compartmentalize trauma, allowing different parts of the mind to hold painful memories separately.
what is dissociation theory?
DID is more frequently diagnosed in this gender, possibly due to higher rates of childhood abuse and greater likelihood of seeking mental health treatment.
What is a female? ( Patel, 2025)
The way to diagnose dissociative identity disorder is via a detailed history taken by both psychiatric practitioners and experienced psychologists using a specific manual (Gupta & Singh, 2023).
What is The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual (DSM-5)?
Sudden emotional shifts - feeling numb or muted emotions - experiencing sudden anger, sadness, or other emotions without a clear cause.
What is emotional symptoms?
Current Dissociative Identity Disorder treatment guidelines recommend a __-phase, trauma-focused
Psychotherapy (Jennings, 2024).
What is three-phase?
The ultimate goal of DID treatment
What is have the different alters coexist in a coordinated way? (Jennings, 2024).