Category: research

If you have ever gone to the internet to search for information written by researchers about dissociative identity disorder, you’ll find what I did. Thousands of papers written on different aspects of DID. To be sure, the page after page of research papers is fascinating, but most people do...

Hi everybody. My cold has finally subsided and I’m feeling somewhat better. I don’t know about you, but I sure get tired of things like a simple virus sending me into an emotional tailspin. Sigh. Anyhoo, I wanted to let you know about my two latest books. These works...

It’s March 5th, the day that folks everywhere who live with the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder gather to spread awareness. Research and Essays on DID To help raise awareness I have made a compilation of some of the papers and essays out there concerning DID. The list is...

It’s March 5th, the day that folks everywhere who live with the diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder gather to spread awareness. Research and Essays on DID To help raise awareness I have made a compilation of some of the papers and essays out there concerning DID. The list is...

Many mental health professionals and people in the public have the impression that dissociative identity disorder was a fad from the 80s and 90s. They believe erroneously that people who present with an altered state of consciousness like is present with DID are either faking it, have been led...

Integration is the most controversial and debated topic in the DID community? Why? ...

I was reading my email this morning and came across an article that proved what I’ve said here about being invalidated in childhood.  In the article on Psychology Today    I found a piece backing up what we who were the victims of this kind of treatment have always known,...

What Is It About Childhood Trauma that Causes DID? Today I’m going to touch on the subject, what it is that causes dissociative identity disorder? That, as you may have guessed by now, is a subject that has many dimensions ranging from attachment problems and a missed developmental stage...