Dissociation has made it into the meme hall of fame, appearing in innumerable posts about situations in which we might feel ...

Many medical terms have evolved or changed over the years to reflect advancements in medical knowledge or to reduce stigma. For example, what was once called consumption is now known to be ...

Spurred by her past struggles with dissociative identity disorder, she has devoted her professional life to studying it.

The word "dissociation" has grown in popularity and become embedded in everyday language, but while the term has gained ...

Dissociative identity disorder (DID) treatment involves a combination of different therapies, psychiatric medications, and coping strategies. Previously known as multiple personality disorder or split ...

Myths about DID paint it as a rare, untreatable condition that involves extreme personality changes. In reality, people with DID switch identities because they don't have a single unified identity.

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In psychiatry, there’s no more controversial diagnosis than dissociative identity disorder (DID), the disorder formerly known as multiple personality disorder (MPD). First appearing in the third ...

In a study of nearly 100 women, participants with certain dissociative symptoms had increased connections within some brain networks and decreased connections within others. The new findings shed ...