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Multiple Personalities

Dr. Gary Bell's Absurd Psychology

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The Myth of Dissociative Identity Disorders

A person with a dissociative disorder who also suffers from depression and anxiety often benefits from the treatment of an antidepressant or an anti-anxiety medicine. Also clinical hypnosis, not stage hypnosis, where you stand on stage and act like a chicken, can be used to control problematic behaviors that many multiple personality patients exhibit such as self-mutilation,. eating disorders, bulimia. And then there's behavioral therapy which involves basically operant conditioning techniques for people in this condition.

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