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           The psychiatric and psychological research on Dissociative Identity Disorder is a rapidly-growing, often contentious field of study. While experts have made headway in recent years toward proving that the disorder exists and examining new methods of treatment, there are still important aspects of DID that remain to be studied. I will focus on one of these and will show, though survey, discussion, and citations of stories from people with DID and the similarly-manifesting Other Specified Dissociative Disorder type 1, that current literature is lacking in one crucial point: treating alters as individuals rather than fragments or parts of the original personality.

Some attention has been paid to alters’ identities, especially to the stereotyped “roles” they play in a given system, but virtually no researchers have looked at alters as actual people or treated them as equals with the “main” patient. This oversight leads many DID systems to suffer emotionally and psychologically in ways that deserve to be studied more than in the one survey I have done. Also, the focus in the literature on integration therapy, while it has somewhat fallen out of favor, is still prevalent as the “gold standard” of treatment, and this not only does not work in the vast majority of cases but can actively cause harm, as my survey shows. I will argue that such a holistic method of understanding DID will not only revolutionize the way it is studied and understood, but it will lead to better methods of treatment that allow everyone in a system to cooperate.

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