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The Proposed Etiologies Of Dissociative Identity Disorder, Jillian Blueford
The Proposed Etiologies Of Dissociative Identity Disorder, Jillian Blueford
The Pegasus Review: UCF Undergraduate Research Journal
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) evolves after suffering consecutive, traumatizing forms of abuse during an individual's early years. Repetitive abuse can lead an individual to develop two or more personalities, and then experience memory loss or other cognitive gaps in his or her early childhood that continue to the present day. This can have devastating effects on millions of people because a significant percentage of affected individuals do not recognize the symptoms or choose to believe that DID does not exist. By analyzing the literature currently available, this article creates a central base of popular and emerging models that clinicians use …