Objective Documentation of Child Abuse and Dissociation in 12 Murderers With Dissociative Identity Disorder
American Journal of PsychiatryPublished 1 December 1997
Dorothy Otnow Lewis, Catherine A. Yeager, Yael Swica, Jonathan Pincus, Melvin Lewis
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The study shows that it is possible, with great effort, to obtain objective evidence of both the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder and the abuse that engenders it and establishes, once and for all, the linkage between early severe abuse and dissociatives identity disorder.
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This study establishes, once and for all, the linkage between early severe abuse and dissociative identity disorder. Further, the data demonstrate that the disorder can be distinguished from malingering and from other disorders. The study shows that it is possible, with great effort, to obtain objective evidence of both the symptoms of dissociative identity disorder and the abuse that engenders it.
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