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Dissociative identity disorders, a serious pathology battered by fiction

2021-10-24T16:49:32.369Z


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From

The Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

to the hero of the movie

Split

, they are a classic of fiction ... to the point that we have a totally biased idea of ​​them and that we sometimes come to it. even if you doubt their real existence ... Dissociative identity disorders (DID) are nevertheless indeed a mental pathology, far removed from the image that the general public has of it.

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These disorders are characterized by the presence of several identities, or “alters” (alternative states of consciousness), which share times of consciousness.

“They follow complex traumas, that is to say repeated, installed, to the point of modifying the person's relationship to the world: his attachment, his reactivity, his way of being, are disturbed.

Dissociation is a strong characteristic of complex trauma

,

explains Dr Stéphanie Khalfa (cognitive neuroscience laboratory, CNRS-University of Aix-Marseille).

France late

In question, a "wiring" of the brain which is not done normally:

"The toddler being dependent

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Source: lefigaro

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