"The diagnosis is controversial and remains disputed." - the second sentence on the Wikipedia article for DID
/endogen:
a moderate, poorly organized collection of facts about dissociative disorders and plurality
by hatehoard (aka h) (and friends!)
( [a] links lead to archived versions of the sources )
Skepticism, Ableism, & Abuse in Psychiatry
This section is not meant to condemn the contributions by those mentioned, but to bring to light injustices and bias within the field.
- Onno van der Hart (Creator of the Theory of Structural Dissociation, former psychotherapist)
- Allen Francis (Chair of the DSM-IV task force, self-admitted scientifically-unfounded DID skeptic)
- Advocating renaming the disorder from MPD to DID to reduce relevance
- "I think "Multiple Personality Disorder" (AKA "DID") is a recurring fad diagnosis"
- Multiple Personality: Mental Disorder, Myth, or Metaphor?
- Summary: "Multiple personality disorder is a fake diagnosis that occurs when a gullible therapist and a suggestible patient influence each other in the creation of new personalities."
- Ralph Allison (MD, author)
Informal Accounts, Opinions, & Metaphors
- Singlets using parts-based language to describe dissociative emotional experiences
- "I feel like a different person when I'm angry", "Part of me wants to say yes, part of me says no"
- Spiritual and/or metaphorial practices such as system hopping
- No spiritual practice necessitates "proof", this doesn't relate to the validity of any type of system
- Everyone has trauma, and everyone dissociates, it comes free with being alive
- Emancipation (dissociation) and elaboration
- Parts can be one or more of these things: dissociated, elaborated, and disordered. Dissociation does not necessitate disorder, etc.
- Emancipated: Separated // Elaborated: Developed // Disordered: Distressed
- Parts can be one or more of these things: dissociated, elaborated, and disordered. Dissociation does not necessitate disorder, etc.
- https://kinhost.org/Main/NotFromAbuse
"a disorder isn't a cause, diagnosis is the effect. cause: having set of symptoms. effect: you get diagnosed"
- Futaba C.
"[In] my mind I see it as[...]
Dissociated and elaborated, not disordered → Plural
Dissociated and disordered, not elaborated → (C)PTSD, BPD, OSDD
Elaborated and disordered, not dissociated → IMHO bipolar and similar mood disorders
All of the above → OSDD, DIDThere are tons of ways to "have parts" and any number of these ^ people might identify as more than one."
- Cendreé G.
Internal Family Systems
The DSM-5
DID diagnostic criteria:
"A. Disruption of identity[...]two or more distinct personality states[...]marked discontinuity in sense of self[...]related alterations in [various functions].
B. Dissociative amnesia: Recurrent gaps in the recall of [events] that are inconsistent with ordinary forgetting.
C. The symptoms cause clinically significant distress or impairment in social, occupational, or other important areas of functioning.
D. The disturbance is not a normal part of a broadly accepted cultural or religious practice.
E. The symptoms are not attributable to the physiological effects of a substance or another medical condition."
Facts
- Dissociative disorders are strongly associated with complex and/or early traumatic experiences (compile sources)
- Diagnostic criteria is not focused on the causes, exceptions are listed (see criteria D and E)
- Note criterion C which necessitates distress for the condition to be considered disordered
Structural Dissociation
- Stating the Theory of Structural Dissociation is concrete scientific proof that systems cannot possibly form non-traumagenically is misinformation...
"Remember this is called the Theory of Structural Dissociation. A theory is a set of beliefs[...]to describe what is possible." (x)
- https://did-research.org/origin/structural_dissociation/problems
Endogenic Systems
- https://kinhost.org/Main/ClaimsThereIsNoResearchOnEndogenics
- https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1FetfQO-EeQZcol0bDxG75kHXyPPBPgg4YwlWJOipwwk/edit?gid=0#gid=0
- https://tumblr.com/sophieinwonderland/729497325738868736
- https://endogenic.crd.co
The "Empowered" and "Natural" Multiplicity Movements
- https://web.archive.org/web/20210115135517/https://subsystems.tumblr.com/endohistory
h: I'm aware this is an old version of this yet-to-be-updated essay. For this reason I also would like to acknowledge and reinforce subsystems's request that this not be used for toxic forms of discourse. Thanks!
h: tl;dr: wow these movements fucking suck