[anderson]

Birnbaum, M. H.; Thomann, K. (1996). "Visual function in multiple personality disorder".

Reinders, A. A.; Nijenhuis, E. R.; Paans, A. M.; Korf, J.; Willemsen, A. T.; Den Boer, J. A. (2003). "One brain, two selves"

Reinders, A. A. T. S. (2008). "Cross-examining dissociative identity disorder: Neuroimaging and etiology on trial"

sorry we do n ot spend so much time here but we found a site that allows all of us to be heard and gives us safety during sharing.

So many of us endure the stigma of DID/MPD not being accepted not only by the gernal public but by the very people that are suppose to be aiding us into recovery.

these studies can be found online but we hope you will also print them out and show them to your T and pdoc to remind them that if they truely doubt you then it can be resolved by a simple brain scan.

peace and joy to all that are here!

[Roseheart101]

Very nice to meet you. I appreciated your posting of the articles. I was most interested in the Reinders (2008) but was not able to download the article. Oh well, I will remember the concept.

I am very lucky my T accepts my DID and is very skilled. Too bad more are not like him.
On another note, I would worry if anyone at my work ever knew about my DID. I am pretty sure I would lose my job. Do you know if anyone has ever studied the problems of stigma with DID? Probably my attitude doesn't help with getting DID accepted by others either.

Thanks again, I hope you and yours stay well.

[pegasus]

anderson! Good to see you!

[anderson]

hi rose,
we have lost a lot due to the misconception of DID and those articles give us hope.
we are just now getting to the point of our recovery in which we are able to remove those that are abusive to us.

peguses,

so glad to be back in small time slots. we still healing from RA/MC issues checking in here to see our safety level.

[bipolarmedstudent]

Originally Posted by Roseheart101

Very nice to meet you. I appreciated your posting of the articles. I was most interested in the Reinders (2008) but was not able to download the article. Oh well, I will remember the concept.

Here is the article. Mods, sorry I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post this.

[Roseheart101]

Originally Posted by bipolarmedstudent

Here is the article. Mods, sorry I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post this.

It didn't post for me, but I will try the reference again in a different sourcef (library, I mean).
Thank you so very much!

[bipolarmedstudent]

Originally Posted by Roseheart101

It didn't post for me, but I will try the reference again in a different sourcef (library, I mean).
Thank you so very much!

If you can't find it, PM me your email and I'll send it to you. I dunno why the attachment didn't work?

I had to right click, open in new window, and then save it to my computer to see it.

[bipolarmedstudent]

Originally Posted by LydiaB

I had to right click, open in new window, and then save it to my computer to see it.

ah, I see.

If anyone wants me to post any other articles on DID (or anything else) just ask or send me a PM. I have access to *most* articles through my university library system. I also have an electronic copy of the DSM-IV and access to a bunch of clinical practice guidelines, which are guidelines that doctors use for treating patients.

I know it can be frustrating to read the abstract of an article and not have access to the full thing!

[bipolarmedstudent]

Somebody requested I post the other articles. Unfortunately, I don't have access to the first one, but here is the second:

[bipolarmedstudent]

Also, I searched pubmed a bit and found some more (recent) articles of interest.

They are:

International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation (2011) Guidelines For Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision. 12:2, 115-187.

Ross C. Errors of Logic and Scholarship Concerning Dissociative Identity Disorder. Journal of Child Sexual Abuse, 18:221–231, 2009.

Forrest K. Toward an Etiology of Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Neurodevelopmental Approach. Consciousness and Cognition 10, 259–293 (2001)

Manning M, Manning R. Convergent Paradigms for Visual Neuroscience and Dissociative Identity Disorder. Journal of Trauma & Dissociation, 10:4, 405-419

I really recommend that if you have DID, you read the first one (guidelines for treatment of DID) and make sure your therapist is at least roughly following the guidelines in the article. Unforuntaly, if therapists are not properly trained to treat DID, they can actually make it worse rather than better. I know it's a long article, and there is summary version available that I can post, but I really recommend you read the whole thing.

Again, if you would like me to post any other articles, simply let me know!

[bipolarmedstudent]

Originally Posted by bipolarmedstudent

Here is the article. Mods, sorry I'm not sure if I'm allowed to post this.

Here it is again. I had to delete the one I posted before because it had the name of my university on it! I feel like a total idiot for 'blowing my cover' like that!!

Reinders AA. Cross-examining dissociative identity disorder: neuroimaging and etiology on trial. Neurocase. 2008;14(1):44-53.

thanks so much bms! And I downloaded the first one and never even noticed it had your schools name on it, so if that makes you feel any better .

[such is life...]

Originally Posted by Roseheart101

Very nice to meet you. I appreciated your posting of the articles. I was most interested in the Reinders (2008) but was not able to download the article. Oh well, I will remember the concept.

I am very lucky my T accepts my DID and is very skilled. Too bad more are not like him.
On another note, I would worry if anyone at my work ever knew about my DID. I am pretty sure I would lose my job. Do you know if anyone has ever studied the problems of stigma with DID? Probably my attitude doesn't help with getting DID accepted by others either.

Thanks again, I hope you and yours stay well.

I worry I would loose my job if any one knew I had d.i.d....playing the blond card covers a multitude of sins...forgetting where you left something ,forgetting whose on the phone..works for me...but sometimes it hurts when my co-workers tell blond ...but what can I do? I cant tell them that I have a gazillion personalitys.

[anderson]

thank you for posting these articles!

it gave us a chance to read them in full!

[psychfan1]

this was really helpful, thanks

Structural dissociation now has evidence of neuroscans which differ between ANPs and EPs, and cannot be mimicked by those without DID. The research is by Schlumpf and is free to copy & distribute as long as it's credited to PLOSOne.

Schlumpf, Y.R.; Reinders, A. A., Nijenhuis, E. R., Luechinger, R., van Osch, M. J., Jäncke, L. (2014). Dissociative Part-Dependent Resting-State Activity in Dissociative Identity Disorder: A Controlled fMRI Perfusion Study. PloS one, volume 9, issue 6, 6 June 12, 2014. (doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0098795)


similar articles are cited on Lab tests - Dissociative Identity Disorder, Dissociation and Trauma Disorders and Reinders has a few on her own website.

some good references here also Society denial of abuse