The Differential Diagnosis of Multiple Personality: A Comprehensive Review

Coons, Philip M.

doi:10.1016/s0193-953x(18)30780-9

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“…Although SCL-90 profiles did not vary significantly by gender, those with DD reported significantly higher scores on the overall GSI and on each of the nine subscales, namely, somatization, obsessive-compulsive, interpersonal sensitivity, depression, anxiety, anger-hostility, phobic anxiety, paranoid ideation, and psychoticism. These findings support those previously reported regarding the polysymptomatic presentation of patients with DD (Coons, 1984;Kluft, 1995;Putnam et al, 1986;Steinberg, 1995;Steinberg & Schnall, 2001). In addition, patients with DD reported significantly higher scores on three factors derived from SCL-90 items: anxiety-depression, paranoid-psychotic, and panic-phobia.…”

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confidence: 92%

“…Patients with undetected dissociative disorders are in high distress, and they may seek out such studies in an attempt to better understand their untreated symptoms and resultant distress. In addition, numerous studies have documented the long delay in detection of dissociative disorders, resulting in treatment for comorbid disorders and/or overlapping symptoms, which in turn results in misdiagnosis prior to dissociative disorder detection (Coons, 1984;Kluft, 1985;Putnam et al, 1986).…”

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confidence: 99%

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SCL–90 symptom patterns: Indicators of dissociative disorders

Steinberg

Barry²,

Sholomskas³

et al. 2005

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

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Section: Discussionsupporting

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confidence: 99%

SCL–90 symptom patterns: Indicators of dissociative disorders

Steinberg

Barry²,

Sholomskas³

et al. 2005

Bulletin of the Menninger Clinic

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“…Although the extant data are strictly correlational, there is reason to suspect that the presence of alters can impede treatment progress. In one study of DID patients in treatment, the number of alters correlated significantly (r 5 .48) with the length of time to ''fusion,'' that is, the reintegration of alters into a ''single'' personality (Coons, 1984).…”

Section: Dissociative Identity Disorder (Did)-oriented Psychotherapymentioning

confidence: 99%

Psychological Treatments That Cause Harm

Lilienfeld

2007

Perspect Psychol Sci

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The phrase primum non nocere (“first, do no harm”) is a well-accepted credo of the medical and mental health professions. Although emerging data indicate that several psychological treatments may produce harm in significant numbers of individuals, psychologists have until recently paid little attention to the problem of hazardous treatments. I critically evaluate and update earlier conclusions regarding deterioration effects in psychotherapy, outline methodological obstacles standing in the way of identifying potentially harmful therapies (PHTs), provide a provisional list of PHTs, discuss the implications of PHTs for clinical science and practice, and delineate fruitful areas for further research on PHTs. A heightened emphasis on PHTs should narrow the scientist-practitioner gap and safeguard mental health consumers against harm. Moreover, the literature on PHTs may provide insight into underlying mechanisms of change that cut across many domains of psychotherapy. The field of psychology should prioritize its efforts toward identifying PHTs and place greater emphasis on potentially dangerous than on empirically supported therapies.

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“…Phobic, anxiety and panic, and post-traumatic disorders were often present in these patients (e.g., Coons, 1984). Psychotic and Schneiderian symptoms were also prevalent.…”

Section: Comorbidity Of Did and Dsm-iv Axis I And Axis Ii Disordersmentioning

confidence: 95%

Israeli Mental Health Professionals' Attitudes Towards Dissociative Disorders, Reported Incidence and Alternative Diagnoses Considered

Somer

2000

Journal of Trauma & Dissociation

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ABSTRACT. Clinical diagnoses of dissociative disorders (DDs), including Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), are controversial because there are mental health professionals in North America and elsewhere who are skeptical about whether these psychiatric disorders actually exist. This paper explores the attitudes of mental health professionals in Israel toward DDs and DID through a survey of 211 practicing clinicians (return rate of 39.5%). Of the sample, 95.5% scored at or above the point on a 5-point Likert scale measuring belief in the validity of DDs (m = 4.17, SD = 0.78); 84.5% declared at least a moderate belief in the validity of DID (M = 3.5, S.D. = 0.97). The average Israeli clinician surveyed had made 4.8 career-long DD diagnoses (S.D. = 18.06) and carried an average of 1.05 DD patients in his/her caseload (S.D. = 2.86). DID had a career-long diagnosis frequency of 0.14 patients per clinician (S.D. = 0.59) and was currently seen at a frequency of 0.03 cases per clinician (S.D. = 0.20). The five most frequently considered alternative diagnoses to DID in Israel were Borderline Personality Disorder (24%), Psychotic Disorder/Schizophrenia (23%), PTSD/Anxiety Disorder (10%), Malingering (8%) and Depressive Disorder (7%). The findings suggest that attitudes of Israeli clinicians are similar to those of North American clinicians despite the geographical and cultural differences between them.

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The Differential Diagnosis of Multiple Personality: A Comprehensive Review

Cited by 102 publications

References 38 publications

SCL–90 symptom patterns: Indicators of dissociative disorders

SCL–90 symptom patterns: Indicators of dissociative disorders

Psychological Treatments That Cause Harm

Israeli Mental Health Professionals' Attitudes Towards Dissociative Disorders, Reported Incidence and Alternative Diagnoses Considered

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