Re: [tips] Dissociative Identity Q

2012-05-22 Thread Gerald Peterson
Thanks Max and Stephen! Yes, I doubt the multiples would be able to respond differentially to an actual, strong sleeping pill. I didn't find this idea mentioned on snopes, but after asking my friend again, I think it came from the TV show Matlock. Andy Griffith plays a lawyer (Matlock) who disco

Re: [tips] Dissociative Identity Q

2012-05-22 Thread sblack
On 22 May 2012 at 12:05, Maxwell Gwynn wrote, in response to Gerald Peterson: "...an active drug such as a sleeping pill would surely have the same physiological effect on the person, independent of which "personality" was being enacted This would make an excellent empirical study. " I agree wi

Re: [tips] Dissociative Identity Q

2012-05-22 Thread Maxwell Gwynn
Gerald: I would speculate that a person claiming dissociative identities may respond to a placebo differentially under various "personalities", e.g., a placebo sedative administered to one "personality" may not have an "effect" on another personality. But an active drug such as a sleeping pill wo

[tips] Dissociative Identity Q

2012-05-22 Thread Gerald Peterson
Discussing mpd or dissociative identity disorder recently...clinicians on TIPS probably encounter many pop ideas or urban legends about this diagnosis. The question that arose is whether you can give a sleeping pill to such a person and have it not affect one "personality"; presumably the one no