This was the first time that the symptoms had a separate diagnosis rather than being grouped together with all the other dissociative disorders. After this separation there were 200 reported cases which increased to 20,000 by 1990. The name of this disorder did not stay for long however, as it was renamed to its current name “Dissociative Identity Disorder” in 1987 when the DSM-IV was published. (Kluft, Steinberg, & Spitzer, 1988) Though the specific causes of DID or where it came from are difficult to comprehend even for qualified professionals, it is believed to brought on by severe or prolonged trauma that occurred during childhood including factors such as emotional, physical, or sexual abuse. Paulette Gillig, PhD stated that:
“In general, practitioners who accept the validity of DID as a diagnosis attribute it to the effects of exposure to situations of extreme ambivalence and abuse in early childhood that are coped with by an elaborate form of denial so that the child believes the event to be happening to someone else (perhaps starting out as an imaginary companion)” …show more content…
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