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turing_incompleteI never quiiiite know what to think when I see people say that "multiple personality disorder" was switched to "dissociative identity disorder" out of a recognition that "we're more than personalities!" or any other kind of recognition of "identity."
I mean, nice to think that medical science is on your side, I suppose, but also that's basically the opposite of what any expert talking about the switch says. "Nobody can really have multiple personalities -- DID recognizes that this is a single person who has dissociated into different identity-states."
And there are still plenty of people annoyed with that "identity" word. "Complex dissociative disorder" is the direction we've seen a lot of people head in.
I'm sure it's nice to think that psychiatric medicine is on your side here, but if your side is "believing people in a system to be meaningfully separate people with legitimate identities" then it reaaaally isn't. (And I suppose "thinking psychiatry is on your side when it isn't" is the source of a lot of problems, oof.)
I mean, nice to think that medical science is on your side, I suppose, but also that's basically the opposite of what any expert talking about the switch says. "Nobody can really have multiple personalities -- DID recognizes that this is a single person who has dissociated into different identity-states."
And there are still plenty of people annoyed with that "identity" word. "Complex dissociative disorder" is the direction we've seen a lot of people head in.
I'm sure it's nice to think that psychiatric medicine is on your side here, but if your side is "believing people in a system to be meaningfully separate people with legitimate identities" then it reaaaally isn't. (And I suppose "thinking psychiatry is on your side when it isn't" is the source of a lot of problems, oof.)
