Body: | Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder,
(DID) is pure "classic" Junk science.
Psychiatry is Junk science
No scientific data that Psychiatry works!
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Made popular by movies like "Sybil" and "Faces of Eve" Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) has been equated with theatre but is included in DSM-IV. Also known as Dissociative Identity Disorder, (DID) it is a behaviour choice not a disease.
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A. Snapshot summary:
1. Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) is a behaviour choice not
a disease.
2. Treating Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) with drugs is
like smashing a computer because of a software virus.
3. Dissociative Identity Disorder, (DID) is best treated by
nominating them for an Oscar.
4. Jesus commands us not to be deceptive.
5. Multiple Personality Disorder is closely associated with
"repressed memory syndrome" where a woman is hypnotized and has false
memories of abuse implanted by the psychiatrist. Movies like "Sybil", and
"The faces of eve" have actually coached thousands of viewers into thinking
they have multiple personalities as a result of forgotten sexual abuse as a
child.
a. These stories of claiming to suddenly remember childhood
abuses are much more common than one might realize.
b. Multiple Personality Disorder is a myth and the product of
junk pop science. Hollywood movies like Sybil or the "Faces of Eve" have
propagated this myth in the eyes of the ignorant public. Psychiatrists
don't really care if it is a myth, they make money off it!
B. Movies: Sybil and Faces of Eve:
1. "The New York Times ranked Sybil among the ten best-selling
nonfiction books of the year and it was quickly turned into a Hollywood
movie. Schrieber was deluged with letters from women thanking her for
helping them understand that they were "multiples." it was not long before
psychologists, in what Spiegel refers to as "a whole new cult, a whole new
wave of hysteria,"' began finding cases of MPD among their patients.
Quickly, psychologists began to report higher and higher frequencies,
eventually claiming occurrences of one person in every hundred in the
general population with much higher incidence rates in groups such as
sexual abuse survivors, hospital inpatients and chemically dependent
individuals." (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 259)
2. "In discussing the possibility that the diagnosis and stories
of Sybil, the celebrated case of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) that
gained public attention from the book and subsequent film of the same name,
were the product of the therapist, Herbert Spiegel says: ...that is one of
the biggest difficulties with working with the concept of causation in
psychotherapy. It is the grand illusion that we have inherited from Freud.
Freud's concept was that you had to get to the truth, and unless you get
the truth no therapeutic effect can take place. So, in the pursuit of the
truth we become engaged in story telling and we impose our hypothesis on
the patient by the way we ask our questions. Highly suggestible
(psychologically-prone) people will of course respond in a way that can
please the doctors, especially if there is a good rapport between them."
(Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 204)
3. This "epidemic" of MPD gave rise to a host of new treatments
and services that involved the acceptance of the psychologist's diagnosis
and the psychological "uncovering" of trauma. In addition to providing
direct service to individuals, it introduced psychologists into the legal
arena in a way that had never been experienced before as clients began to
report being victims of child abuse, sexual abuse, cult abuse and even
satanic abuse. Psychology was finally gaining the exposure and status that
it had been seeking, but it was gaining this in association with the legal
profession rather than medicine. Whereas the medical profession had been
unwilling to acknowledge the expertise of non-medical and untrained
psychologists, lawyers were eager to find "experts" who could be employed
to support their clients' cases. (Manufacturing Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen,
2001, p 260)
4. "But MPD [Multiple Personality Disorder, ie. Sybil] was not
the only victim-making technology of this retooled industry. Other formats
emerged, all with an underlying framework that defined the patient as good
but damaged by trauma and therefore a victim in need of the psychologist's
help, and someone else as bad, a perpetrator, an enemy. Whether it was an
alcoholic parent, an abusive spouse, a perverted teacher or doctor, a rude
store clerk or an annoying or harassing colleague, the patient was always
the innocent victim; the other was the malevolent cause." (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 260)
5. "In another instance involving multiple personalities, an
angry former patient confronted her psychologist, "Don't you think it is
odd that no one is getting better and that everyone wants to cut and kill
themselves after they get into therapy with you?" ... he responded by
saying, "And which personality am I speaking to now?" (Manufacturing
Victims, Dr. Tana Dineen, 2001, p 75, From The Fifth Estate, CBC TV)
6. It is clear that Sybil was a bored, lonely and rather
insignificant woman who found her life suddenly the center of everyone's
attention.
a. It is also clear that she was faking the whole thing.
b. The stupid psychiatrists bought the whole thing critically
without question because they wanted to be famous and document a newly
discovered mental illness.
c. So the psychiatrist's desire for personal fame, fortune and
recognition coupled with Sybil's desire for attention is the foundation of
MPD. Today most people who know better, reject MPD as a bad example of junk
science at its worst! MPD is actually a Factitious disorder: Faking mental
illness: F68.1
C. What biopsychiatrists, drug companies and governments say:
Notice they admit Dissociative Identity Disorder is not a medical problem
caused by out of balance brain chemicals, but life trauma:
1. Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID, (formerly Multiple
Personality Disorder, MPD) Retrieving and dealing with memories of trauma
is important for the person with DID, because this disorder is believed to
be caused by physical or sexual abuse in childhood. ... The person with DID
may have as few as two alters, or as many as 100. The average number is
about 10. ... Treatment for DID consists primarily of psychotherapy with
hypnosis. The therapist seeks to make contact with as many alters as
possible and to understand their roles and functions in the patient's life.
(Dissociative Identity Disorder, DID, NAMI, National Alliance on Mental
Illness, March 2000)
2. "Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD): Possession Trance: In
contrast to dissociative trance, possession trance involves the assumption
of a distinct alternate identity, usually that of a deity, an ancestor, or
a spirit. The person in this trance often engages in rather complex
activities, which may take the form of expressing otherwise forbid-den
thoughts or needs, negotiating for change in family or social status, or
engaging in aggressive behavior. Possession usually involves amnesia for a
large portion of the episode during which the alternate identity was in
control of the person's behavior. In Indian possession syndrome, the
affected individual suddenly begins speaking in an altered voice with an
altered identity, usually that of a deity recognizable to others. Through
this voice, a person may refer to himself or herself in the third person.
The affected person's "spirit" may negotiate for changes in the family
environment or become agitated or aggressive. Possession syndrome typically
occurs in a recently married woman who finds herself uncomfortable or
unwelcome in her mother-in-law's home. Such individuals usually are unable
to directly express their discomfort." (Textbook of Clinical Psychiatry,
Hales, Yudofsky, 2003 AD, p 733)
D. Multiple Personality Disorder and Demon Possession:
1. Demon possession was a true phenomenon recorded in the bible
during the Apostolic age.
a. Demon possession does not happen today.
b. Read the Case of the jail house demoniac who fooled all the
psychiatrists but not the church preacher!
2. In 1665 AD, Dr. William Drage concluded that he had witnessed
several cases of demon possession in a couple of women. In fact, Mary Hall
was faking the whole thing (hysteria) for attention because she did not
like the way she was being treated by her father. However, Drage correctly
notes that this is not a bodily illness, but a spiritual one: "A Disease of
Witchcraft is a Sickness that arises from strange and preternatural Causes
. . . afflicting with strange and unaccustomed Symptoms, and commonly
preternaturally violent, very seldom or not at all curable by Ordinary and
Natural Remedies." It is best to view this as a comedy act put on by Mary
Hall who was supposed possessed by two demons. Only then, do you realize
how much fun she was having putting on her show and getting all kinds of
attention. Typical of hysterics, the curtain rises on Act 1, and Mary Hall
starts "the old shaking foot trick"! "It took her first in one foot with a
trembling shaking and Convulsive motion, afterwards it possessed both; she
would sit stamping very much; she had sometimes like Epileptick, sometimes
like Convulsive sits, and strange ejaculations". When that was enough to
convince them to call in the excorcist, (Doctor Woodhouse) Mary Hall had to
start writing some new material quickly... and she should be awarded a
Grammy award posthumously. "were heard in her [Mary Hall] strange noises,
like mewing of Cats, barking of Dogs, roaring of Bears, &c. at last a Voice
spoke in her, "Pus Cat, what a Cat? nothing but me!" ... Mary later told
revealed the true reason Mary Hall was unhappy: She wanted to Choke her
father! This was all about a daughter's anger and/or rebellion against her
father! He may have been unfair to her, or perhaps it was just a bit of
teenage rebellion! The curtain open in Act 2: "We are only two little Imps,
Goodwife' Harods, and Youngs; sometimes we are in the shape of Serpents,
sometimes of Flies, sometimes of Rats or Mice; and Gfe Harod sent us to
choke this Maid, Mary Hall; but we should have choked Goodman Hall, but of
him we had no Power, and so possessed his daughter; we came down the
Chimney, riding on a stick, and went first to Mary's foot, whereupon her
foot trembled first of all her distemper." The obvious tip off is that
demons do not ride on broom sticks, being a 17th century concept alone.
Demons are supernatural beings. Acts 3: "Sometimes she would beat her self,
sometimes with one, sometimes both hands, chiefly on the Breast. Sometimes
her legs would go, fast and violently, kicking of the ground, and the
Spirits would say, Come, Mary, Dance; and then they would make a tune, and
make her feet to Dance it; sometimes they would say, Mary, make a mouth;
and then they convulsed her mouth." Doctor Woodhouse, and two other doctors
were deceived by Mary Hall's new found acting career and concluded she was
demon possessed: "he really thought she was possessed". Had Woodhouse
merely broken out in laughter, he would have likely cured Mary Hall
instantly of her "demon possession". It is crystal clear that it was Mary,
not the demon, who wanted to "choke Goodman Hall", her father. Mary Hall
was spanking her father through the demon. There are countless examples of
this sad, but typical case of faking insanity today. The story of Sybil is
yet a modern case of a bored woman, trying to get her acting career off the
ground! Perhaps she knew about Mary Hall. We refer you to the case of
"Joe", the jail house demoniac who fooled all the psychiatrists, but not
the church preacher! (Daimonomageia. A small treatise of sicknesses and
diseases from witchcraft, William Drage, 1665 AD)
Conclusion:
1. Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity
Disorder, (DID) is pure "classic" Junk science.
2. Multiple Personality Disorder is a behaviour choice not a
disease. Multiple Personality Disorder is a behaviour whose origin is the
human spirit not the body. There is no scientific evidence that Multiple
Personality Disorder is caused by a chemical imbalance in the brain.
3. Dissociative Identity Disorder is an example of how one
psychiatrist, Herbert Spiegel (June 29, 1914 - December 15, 2009) almost
singlehandedly invented and popularized one of the most famous mental
illnesses: The split personality.
4. The split personality, otherwise known as the classic
"Skitzo", which roots from the word schizophrenic, which in turn comes from
the Greek roots skhizein (σχίζειν, "to split") and phrēn, phren-
(φρήν, φρεν-; "mind"): the split mind.
5. It is important to ask, "What benefit is this individual
deriving from engaging in this behaviour of Dissociative Identity
Disorder?" Dissociative Identity Disorder is a means to an end for personal
gain.
a. For Sybil, she obviously derived the benefits of fame,
attention and entertainment.
b. More recent motives for probing the past for long forgotten
sexual abuses are more direct: cash.
6. Jesus commanded us not to be deceivers.
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