{"id":968,"date":"2013-05-31T15:01:14","date_gmt":"2013-05-31T15:01:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=968"},"modified":"2016-07-04T10:11:32","modified_gmt":"2016-07-04T10:11:32","slug":"mpd-renamed-did-but-its-still-bunk","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/?p=968","title":{"rendered":"MPD renamed DID \u2013 but it&#8217;s still bunk"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"style187\" style=\"text-align: right;\">May 31, 2013<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAfter the DSM-III, often called the &#8216;Bible&#8217; of psychiatric diagnosis, included (Multiple Personality Disorder) in 1980, thousands of spurious cases emerged in the next two decades, and special psychiatric clinics arose to treat them. Yet faced with evidence of this disastrous epidemic, the DSM-IV did not delete the diagnosis. Instead, the manual renamed it Dissociative Identity Disorder.<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201c \u2018MPD presented a dilemma for me,\u2019 says (psychiatrist Allen Frances, who oversaw DSM-IV). \u2018We took scrupulous pains to present both sides of the controversy as fairly and effectively as possible \u2013 even though I believed one side was complete bunk.\u2019 How do you \u2018fairly\u2019 argue for a diagnosis you think is complete bunk? Where\u2019s the methodological rigor? Why did it take malpractice suits to close the psychiatric MPD clinics and not the presumed voice of scientific authority, the DSM? Dissociative Identity Disorder remains in the DSM-5.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\">\u2013 From \u201c<a href=\"http:\/\/online.wsj.com\/article\/SB10001424127887323716304578481222760113886.html?mod=googlenews_wsj\" target=\"_blank\">How Psychiatry Went Crazy<\/a>\u201d by Carol Tavris\u00a0in the Wall Street Journal (May 17, 2013)<\/p>\n<p class=\"style184\">\u201cAnother disturbing by-product of the MPD diagnosis is the prevalence of alleged repressed memories of satanic ritual abuse. The association of satanic ritual abuse in MPD diagnoses has been attributed to the belief by numerous MPD adherents in the existence of an intergenerational satanic cult conspiracy that has murdered thousands without leaving a trace of evidence.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"style173\" style=\"text-align: right;\"><em>\u2013 From \u201c<\/em><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fmsfonline.org\/links\/prepressedmemoryMPD.html\" target=\"_blank\"><em>Repressed Memory<\/em><\/a><em>, Multiple Personality Disorder and Satanic Ritual Abuse,\u201d\u00a0an amicus brief filed in Supreme Court of Georgia, Kahout v.\u00a0Charter Peachford Behavioral Health System (September 1998)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>May 31, 2013 \u201cAfter the DSM-III, often called the &#8216;Bible&#8217; of psychiatric diagnosis, included (Multiple Personality Disorder) in 1980, thousands of spurious cases emerged in the next two decades, and special psychiatric clinics arose to treat them. Yet faced with evidence of this disastrous epidemic, the DSM-IV did not delete the diagnosis. Instead, the manual [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-968","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=968"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2441,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/968\/revisions\/2441"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=968"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=968"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.littlerascalsdaycarecase.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=968"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}