Cognitive analysis of multiple personality disorder.
Multiple personality disorder is not rare, and it can be treated using the principles of cognitive therapy. Noncognitive techniques are also required. The purpose of this paper is to define the basic cognitive map of multiple personality disorder, one which recurs in the majority of cases. Multiple personality patients commonly make the classical cognitive errors such as selective abstraction and dichotomization, but they also have a set of schemata and cognitions derived from their abusive childhoods that are specific for the disorder.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D001521:Behavior Therapy / Q000379:methods*; D003071:Cognition; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000523:psychology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans