Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-15 Thread Gerald Peterson
Yes, I think DID has as much validity as MPD The reasons for the "dissociations" and behaviors can vary. And indeed, what people think of dissociation can vary. People can/do "present" themselves this way based largely on their ideas/beliefs about these "disorders." In the 70s and 80s I tho

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-15 Thread Jeffry Ricker, Ph.D.
> On Apr 15, 2015, at 5:02 AM, Michael Britt wrote: > I have spoken to a few clinicians who agree that while multiple personality > disorder probably doesn’t exist MPD/DID undoubtedly “exists"—that is, people exhibit the symptoms. The controversy has always been over how best to explain the de

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-15 Thread Michael Britt
l...@emory.edu <mailto:slil...@emory.edu> > > > From: MARK CASTEEL [mailto:ma...@psu.edu <mailto:ma...@psu.edu>] > Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:45 PM > To: Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) > Subject: Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality &

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread MARK CASTEEL
** - Original Message - From: "Scott O Lilienfeld" To: "Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 2:50:02 PM Subject: RE: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality Hi All: One relativel

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread MARK CASTEEL
;Teaching in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS)" Sent: Tuesday, April 14, 2015 10:34:15 AM Subject: Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality Sorry about odd wording. It's my phone's autospelling and I didn't notice it to correct. :-( Sent from my iPhone

RE: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread Lilienfeld, Scott O
ing in the Psychological Sciences (TIPS) Subject: Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality Hi Beth. Thanks for responding to Michael's query and providing the video link. I just wish I could find a very nice discussion of DID that wasn't so long. As it is, I'm alread

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread Carol DeVolder
Beth (in all seriousness, too), is this the doctor who was charged with fraud for billing the insurance company for group therapy? On Tue, Apr 14, 2015 at 9:30 AM, Beth wrote: > > > > > > > I continue to show a 60 minutes segment about a woman in Appleton > Wisconsin and others who were diagnos

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Britt
Thank you Beth. Watching now. I wish this was on YouTube so others would find it more easily. Michael Michael A. Britt, Ph.D. mich...@thepsychfiles.com http://www.ThePsychFiles.com Twitter: @mbritt > On Apr 14, 2015, at 10:32 AM, Beth wrote: > > > > > > > > Sorry about sending w

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread Beth
Sorry about odd wording. It's my phone's autospelling and I didn't notice it to correct. :-( Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Apr 2015, at 10:30 am, Beth wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > I continue to show a 60 minutes segment about a woman in Appleton Wisconsin > and others who were di

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread Beth
Sorry about sending without the link. My phone apparently has DI D. Here is the link: http://www.cbsnews.com/videos/mpd/ Beth Benoit Sent from my iPhone > On 14 Apr 2015, at 10:21 am, Michael Britt wrote: > > > > > > > > > > > Our field is (desperately) trying to “expunge” the id

Re: [tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread Beth
I continue to show a 60 minutes segment about a woman in Appleton Wisconsin and others who were diagnosed with MPD, and she referred to it, and her psychiatrist, Kenneth Olson paid a $2.6 million lawsuit. He convinced her that she had 126 personalities, and performed an exorcism on her as well.

[tips] YouTube and Multiple Personality

2015-04-14 Thread Michael Britt
Our field is (desperately) trying to “expunge” the idea of multiple personalities from the public consciousness, it’s obviously going to be an uphill battle. I noticed that even a search of YouTube on “dissociative disorder” brings up a slew of popular videos (many old) on multiple personaliti