When everything is blurry and moving, Lise has her barometer.
“I have a playlist representative of everyone’s musical tastes.
Depending on my reactions, from
what is that noise
to
what is this song
, I know who we are.
» She says “we”, “we”, like an old husband who speaks of his wife as an extension of himself.
But Lise is neither an old husband nor exclusively a woman.
Lise has “dissociative identity disorder” (DID), or “multiple personality disorder”.
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Whether it considers them as “possessed” then “hysterical”, psychiatry has, from its emergence, been passionate about people who seemed to be inhabited by several identities.
The development of certain tools, such as the Dissociative Experiences scale, has made it possible to assess the proportion of people affected, which is much higher than it seems.
An American study in 2005 established the prevalence at 1.5% of the adult population.
Another, carried out among women in Turkey, estimated 1.1%.
By representing it, cinema and literature have widely publicized the disorder;
they undoubtedly created a fashion effect, but above all… clichés.
Could a man torn between his darkest sides become a killer, like in the film “Split”?
A woman with multiple personalities could sometimes be, as in the series “United States of Tara”, a depraved teenager, a soupy veteran, a wild cat?
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