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The models of DID

Planted 2023-November-29

  • There exist mutliple models of DID
  • They mostly focus on how it is caused
  • There is a distinct lack of description what it is like
  • The socio-cognitive model still does not poes any evidence despite its long history
  • There is some bio-neurological evidence supporting the structural dissociation theory
    • There are measurable differences between ANPs and NP when confronted to trauma memory which cannot be replicated within the control group
    • The seem differences in the brain structure of DID patients
    • The research is heavily focused on Trauma
  • The problem with strutural dissociation is
    • van der Hart has had his practioners license revoked due to a decade long abuse of his patients
    • There does not seem a critical reevaluation of his theories taking this into account
    • The descriped concepts in the theory are rarely to be observed so clearly in the open to the point of questioning how valid they are [citation needed]