Dissociative personality disorder (DID) (known as multiple personality disorder in the past) some people experience dissociation by day dreaming or losing their train of thought. People been known to think that DID is the outcome of severe trauma during early childhood, usually bad, repetition of sexual, physical, or emotional abuse. Dissociative personality disorder affect nearly 31 million Americans (15% of the population). History Multiple personality is not a new development in the 20th century, information of multiple personality thought to exist in the image of shamans changed into animal forms representing spirits in Paleolithic cave paintings. In ongoing history cases of demonic possession have been charted that many experts now believe are cases of multiple personality disorder. …show more content…
Psychotherapy is considered to be the main component of treatment for DID. In treating people with the disorder, therapist usually try to help clients improve their relationships with others to experience feelings they are not comfortable feeling or openly expressing in thre past. This may be done using family, individual or group psychotherapy. It is carefully pulled in order to prevent the person with DID from becoming overwhelmed by anxiety, risking descriptive reaction of their traumatic past being expose by those very strong emotions. Dialectical behavior therapy is a form of cognitive behavior therapy that emphasizes mindfulness and works on helping the DID patients soothe him/ herself by decreasing negative responses to stressors. Health professional try to guide clients in trying a way to coexist, and work together hypnosis is sometimes used to help increase the information that the person with DID has about their symptoms/ identity states, thereby increasing the control they have over those states when they change from one personality state to