Dissociative Identity Disorder Research Paper

Demonic Possession and Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dissociative identity disorder is not caused by demons. Dissociative identity disorder is caused by severe traumatic experience and painful childhood (Morris, C. G., & Maisto, A. A., 2006).Demonic possession is different from dissociative identity disorder because demonic possession is caused by demons. From the verse coming from Matthew 4:24 stated that “And the report of Him went forth into all Syria: and they brought unto Him all that were sick, with various diseases, those suffering severe pain, possessed with demons, epileptics, and paralytics, and He cured them”. Take note of the phrase “possessed with demons”, it only means that possession is caused really by demons. The case of possession …show more content…
Most of the times, dissociative identity disorder is always said to be a demonic possession where there are demons that will enter the body of a person which will made them turn to an identity which they are not.The mistake is that when they saw dissociative identity disorder cases, common people will have the prejudices that there is demon, devil or …show more content…
One of the survey done in history shows that 77% of psychology students defined schizophrenic as having split personalities or identities (Vaughan, 1977). There is a large number of students who did not know what is the difference between dissociative identity disorder and schizophrenia. According to Carlson (1990), schizophrenia is probably the most misused psychological term in existence. People commonly have the conception that if someone had different identities occurring on the body, they will think that he or she is experiencing a psychological disease named schizophrenia. Schizophrenia-DID misconception surely rooted from the misconception and confusion in terminology (Lillienfeld, S. O., Lynn, S. J., Ruscio, J., & Beyerstein, B. L.

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