Tuesday 24 July 2012

Emedinews:Insights on Medicolegal Issues:What is Dissociative identity disorder?



Dissociative identity occurs due to chronic mental trauma or stress. The affected person fails to integrate the various aspects of his personality. As a result, he has a different self–identity at different time, place and situation, which he again forgets in another place or time or situation where he presents with another identity. In the course of such shifting of personality, there are concurrent vague complaints of disease or trauma due to assault.

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