Psycho: Dissociative Identity Disorder Analysis

In the 1960 classic horror movie Psycho, Anthony Perkins character Norman Bates had dissociative identity disorder (DID) or in other words he had multiple personality disorder and anyone with this disorder can have up to 100 different identities (Barlow & Durand, p. 200). This disorder was manifested by many years of abuse by his mother, Norma, who always told him that sex was evil and the women were promiscuous, this only left him his mother. This was not just the only disorder that Norman Bates suffered from possesive personality, which he took the place of his mother after he killed her in a jealous rage and we learn in our text that someone could do this and in the case of Jonah who watched his mother stab his father (p. 200), sometimes

This leads me to believe that Norman was sheltered and nurtured too much by his mother, once his father had passed away. When someone has multiple disorders they usually have what they call Co-Occurring Disorders or has been commonly known as dual diagnosis or dual disorder (Psychology Today, 2014). Persons such as Norman, have a strong distrust of others ' and this typically begins in early adulthood. Moreover, Norman suffered from the mental known as Psychosis and those who suffer from this, have a hard to determining what is real and what is not real. All in all, such treatment for DID will result in an extensive long-term psychotherapy, in which the therapists will try and deconstruct the different personalities that he has and make them one. The other forms of treatment that could help him is, cognitive and creative therapies. Although there are no current medications that could treat his condition, he can use antidepressants, anxiety medications and/or tranquilizers can control his symptoms of