Behavior analytic accounts of Dissociative Identity Disorder, formerly known as Multiple Personality …

• Abstract
• What is personality in behavioral terms?
• What is multiple personality?
• How common are these behaviors?
• What causes these behaviors?
• How does behavioral theory account for these behaviors?
• The control of self-report
• Differential remembering
• Self-observation and controlling events
• Emotional behaviors and controlling contingencies
• Differential "intelligence" and physical symptoms
• How should therapy address these behaviors?
• Conclusions
• References

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What causes these behaviors?

- Personality, Personality “Theory” And Dissociative Identity Disorder: What Behavior Analysis Can Contribute And Clarify

Theories attempting to characterize and explain these behaviors are as diverse as the paradigms that propose them. Psychoanalytical theory argued these behaviors as being motivational, motivated and driven by a defective or inadequate identification with the same-sex parent and the abrupt loss of a substitute model (Horton & Miller, 1972; Sackheim & Devanand, 1991). Bowers et al. (1971) argued that a sense of self-loathing and self-alienation leads to the development of multiple personality. Dissociation has also tentatively been attributed to extreme self-hypnosis (Bliss, 1980, 1984; Hilgard, 1977) and neurological aberrations or epileptic post-ictal activity (Gur, 1982; Schenk & Bear, 1981).