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Identity Vs Dissociative Identity Disorder

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Dissociative Identity Disorder Science vs Pseudo-science: should psychological defenses be used in the courtroom? The use of psychology as a defense should not be used in courtrooms. They should not be used because there will be defendants who will abuse the justice system just to get away with the crime they have committed, and they might repeat the same crime or commit a worse crime. Many would believe that there are people out there who have mental disabilities, such as dissociative identity disorder, but there will be at times in which the psychologist, defendant's lawyer, and doctors can prove that the suspect during the questioning process can prove the defendant's disorder was the reason. Then the defendant would go to a psychiatric …show more content…

In the movie Identity (2003), the perpetrator known as Malcolm Rivers was a man who suffered with D.I.D was sentenced to death for the murders of several people. It was the job of the defensive team of Malcolm's lawyers and psychologist to prove that he was legally insane at the time he committed the murders. The job of the psychiatrist was to get Rivers to prove that he can get rid of every personality to get to the one “good” personality in front of the judge and prosecutors. The many different personalities that Rivers had was a ex cop and limo driver Ed, a ex actress Caroline, a quite adolescence Timmy, his step dad George and mother Alice, a prostitute Paris, two runaway convicts Rhodes, and Robert, newlyweds Lou and Ginny, and the motel owner- in which the location of where all of Rivers personalities meet- Larry. The treatment was to get River to kill off all of his personalities, Rivers successfully ends with the personality of Paris which get the judge to overturn the death penalty and send him to the psychiatric ward for life. This may seem like a good claim as to why there should be a psychological defense in court but this claim should be refuted, because in the end of the movie River was able to hide one of his “bad” personalities of Timmy who was the personality that “killed” all the other personalities and kills Paris because he was the strongest personality and the personality that Rivers was when he committed all the murders. This causes Rivers to kill the psychologist and the diver of the van that would send him to the psychiatric ward. Not all the time a psychological base defense can work because like in the movie Identity, the psychologist wasn’t successfully able to prove that you can “kill” off each personality to prove that the defendant was legally insane during the

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A properly trained Forensic Psychologist is needed to make a proper evaluation of a potentially insane defendant in any case where insanity is suspected. This is a necessary area of specialty for psychology, leading to the formation of Forensic Psychologists, because of the demand for such evaluations. This case is significant because it led to the formation of a niche for psychologists to specialize in. Competency evaluations for insanity are a big part of legal cases because of this case pertaining to potentially insane defendants. There are several crimes where an evaluator is needed to decipher the competence of whether an individual is insane because the insanity plea has become a common one.

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Those matters are for the trier of fact alone. Id. In this criminal case a mental health expert is prepared to offer an opinion on the whether the defendant was insane

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Dr. Hare proves that a mentally ill person has little to no emotion through crimes or thoughts they commit. Almost as a computer may act. This makes the person able to commit unbelieve crimes. This compares to the article, “A Revised Portrait of a Psychopath” by Peter Reuell. The article articulates the mindset of the mentally ill and does a case study on it.

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In his memoir Just Mercy, Bryan Stevenson recounts the stories of many defendants whose mental illness was ignored during their trial. Whether they were intellectually disabled or were going through major trauma, all of the clients were seriously impacted. Logically, a major detail like the defendant's mental state should have been discussed and considered when issuing a punishment. Evidence of their mental illness was overlooked, however, leading to guilty verdicts and, in some cases, executions. Regardless of the individual cases, avoiding the topic of mental health shows a complete failure to understand how it can severely impact an individual.

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In 1992 a notorious serial killer and sex offender named Jeffery Dahmer was put on trial for the the sixteen brutal murders he had committed in Wisconsin. Along with murder, his convictions included cannibalism, necrophilia, and preservation of body parts. During the trial he had many doctors and experts argue whether he was criminally insane or whether he was sane and knew what he was doing during the time of the murders. Although he was diagnosed with multiple personality disorders, Dahmer was found to be legally sane and able to stand trial. In William Shakespeare’s Hamlet, the protagonist acts insane, but there is evidence that it is nothing more than a sham.

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The case of Kenneth Parks is explained, since he was a man who murdered his mother-in-law and attempted to murder his father-in-law all while he was sleepwalking. Eagleman begs the question of whether it was Parks fault, and if it was not, then is if all criminals are not faulted for committing a crime when they have a mental disorder. He asks how far the scale can go to forgive a person of their crimes, a main theme of his writing. The topic is interesting, since gunman that fire away at others because of a tumor in their amygdala, for example, may only have done what they did in the heat of the moment. Though the question remains as to why that person did not see a doctor so that the issue could have been corrected, so it could have also been their fault.

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This then led to an actually diagnosis of a psychopath, because in their mind he had to have something. This information was compared to a previous psychopath would look like, he fitted the picture. By the verdict people already though something was wrong, and even if there wasn’t, something had to be wrong enough that he could fake it which was what anchor everyone’s beliefs that he could not be realise after wards. People made judgments quickly without having to spend a lot of time analyzing information of his

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One of the most prominent texts that portrays a mental disorder in recent times is Disney's hit TV series, Moon Knight. In the show, the main character Marc Spector is shown to have Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID). Throughout the show, he switches between his main persona, a brave superhero, and his persona of a regular person working a normal job. Marc Spector’s portrayal of Dissociative Identity Disorder is an accurate representation of DID as its depiction of the origin of the disorder, communication between personalities, and awareness of the other identity is consistent with the scientific definition of DID. The show also portrays one of Marc Spector’s personalities as someone prone to violence.

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A disorder characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states is known as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) or also previously known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD). Along with having multiple identities one who has this disorder may also experience self - destructive behavior, impulsivity, or may participate in self-harm. It is known that DID is the result of extreme and repeated trauma that occurs during important periods of development during childhood. Dissociation Identity Disorder is rare in which it only occurs in fewer than 200,000 cases per year in the US. In cases that the disorder is present, the person often struggles with understanding and coping with their disorder which is portrayed in the 2010 drama, Frankie & Alice.

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Other specified dissociative disorders, major depressive disorder, bipolar disorders, PTSD, psychotic disorders, substance/medication-induced disorder, personality disorder, conversion disorder (function neurological symptoms disorder), seizure disorder, and Factitious disorder and malingering. Aaron Stampler could not be diagnose with any of these differential diagnosis because dissociative Identity disorder is the only disorder in the DSM-5 where we see disruption of identity characterized by two or more distinct personality states. (American Psychiatric Association & American Psychiatric Association, 2013, p.

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The disruption of marked discontinuity in sense of self and sense of agency, accompanied by related alterations in affect, behavior, consciousness, memory, perception, cognition, and/or sensory-motor functioning” (American Psychiatric association,2013). To be diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder, a person will have at least two, and possibly more, distinct identities or personality states. Each will have its own pattern of sensing, thinking about and relating to self and environment (Bexson, 2005). These identities will repeatedly assume control of the person’s behavior, which is what the narrator possesses in this film when he falls asleep, and dissociates into Tyler Durden. One important similarity between the film Fight Club’s dissociative identity disorder and the real one is the interpretation of a stronger, more confident personality that takes over the narrator.

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Introduction Dissociative identity disorder(DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder is described as the existence of two or more personalities inside of an individual. (Whitman 1991, pg. 422) It made its way into the DSM-III in 1980, and was renamed to Dissociative Identity Disorder in 1994 with its entrance in the DSM-IV (Noll 2000, pg. 284). Prior to 1910, DID was rare with only 200 cases reported; between 1910 and 1975, the disorder almost disappeared, due to the fact that people were misdiagnosing it as schizophrenia (Noll 2000, pg. 284). Studies later showed that out of a sample of 236 people diagnosed with DID, 41% had been previously diagnosed with Schizophrenia (Noll 2000, pg. 284).

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Dissociative Identity Disorder, or better known as Multiple Personality disorder, is an extreme kind of dissociation where the affected individual creates distinct and different personalities in response to severe trauma or violently stressful situations. They remove themselves from any behaviors, memories, feelings and/or actions that would identify with the main personality, from the person that experienced the events. Each identity has its own name, gender, manner of speech and behavior as well as its own personal history. Causes Dissociation occurs due to an individual’s attempt at coping with a difficult situation, usually trauma. It is more commonly seen among young children whose sense of personality is still impressionable and can

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