Multiple Personality Disorder

By ;
Estefania Sofea
Zahara
Have you heard about the 3
faces of eve?
And…
who is eve actually?
 The 3 faces of Eve
• Based on true story of Georgia
housewife who had multiple
personality disorder.
• memory loss
• Its cause from her bad experience
during her childhood time
• This grief & terror leads to Eve
“spitting off” the another personality
 What are Multiple
Personality Disorder …
• Multiple Personality Disorder also known as
Dissociative Identity Disorder
• It’s a mental condition whereby a single individual
evidences two or more distinct identities or
personalities, each with its own pattern of
perceiving and interacting with the environment.
• These personality also considered to routinely
take control of a individual’s behavior
• is associated complete memory loss that goes
beyond normal forgetfulness of the past,
awareness of identity and immediate sensations,
and control of bodily movements
Types of Multiple Personality
disorder (MPD)
There are different types of MPD
 Dissociative Amnesia- when a person
blocks out certain information ,usually
associated with a stressful or traumatic
event. This include loss memory for a
long period time.
 Dissociative fugue- the person
temporarily loses his/her personal
identity. People with dissociative fugue
often become confused about who they
are and may even create new identities.
Outwardly, people with this disorder
show no signs of illness, such as a
strange appearance or behavior.
 Depersonalization disorder- This
disorder involves a person’s sense of being
disconnected or detached from his or her body.
The disorder is sometimes described as being
numb or in a dream, or feeling like you are
watching yourself from outside your body.
 Dissociative identity disorder (DID) - DID,
the most severe type of dissociative disorder,
was formerly called multiple personality
disorder. As a coping mechanism, a person with
this disorder splits off feelings, personality traits
and characteristics or memories. As a result,
severe stress or other triggers can cause the
person to act and speak as though he or she is
a different person. Each identity can have its
own name and personal history, or the identities
can be less well-defined and simple feel like
people talking inside the person’s head.
Why Multiple Personality
Disorder (MPD) happen
and what cause it?
• Hurtful experience during childhood
• Early loss (death of parents)
• Mental illness & Medical illness
• Lack of protection against further
overwhelming experience
• Amnesia
• War and disaster
• Abuse experience
• Accident
• Rape
• Genetic from families members
Multiple Personality
Disorder (MPD)
treatment
The first goal of treatment is to relieve
symptoms and control the disturbing
behavior. Treatment then aims to help the
person safely express and process painful
memories, develop new coping and life skills,
restore functioning, and improve
relationships.

• Psychotherapy - Psychotherapy (a type

of counseling) is the main treatment for
dissociative disorders.
• Cognitive therapy - This type of therapy
focuses on changing dysfunctional thinking
patterns.
• Medication - There is no medication to
treat the dissociative disorders
themselves. However, a person with a
dissociative disorder who also suffers from
depression or anxiety
• Family therapy -This helps to educate
the family about the disorder and its
causes, as well as to help family members
recognize symptoms of a recurrence.
• Creative therapies (art therapy, music
therapy) -These therapies allow the
patient to explore and express his or her
thoughts and feelings in a safe and
creative way.
 prevention
Although it may not be possible to prevent all
cases of dissociative disorders, it may be
helpful to begin treatment in people as soon
as they begin to have symptoms. Further,
prevention or elimination of child abuse and
quick intervention following a traumatic event
or emotionally distressing experience may
help reduce the risk of developing
dissociative disorders.
 conclusion
We have seen, then, that multiple personality
is a psychiatric condition under diagnosed. 
The personalities do not have an
extraterrestrial origin, but can be traced back
to the characteristics of real-life persons who
have formed a strong impression upon the
sufferer, who has then personalized them and
unconsciously developed them into a
character of his own. 
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