People visiting this website are welcome to e-mail Drs. Allison or Marie McKenzie about MPD cases. 30 October 1998. The cause is attributed to severe and prolonged emotional trauma or physical or sexual abuse during childhood. The disorder usually begins in childhood but probably won t be noticed by others until later, is more common in women, and has varying degrees of dissociation.
Treatment usually includes therapy, medications, and support groups.
Dance can also be therapeutic. 30 October 1998. It provides characteristics of dissociative disorders, explaining interruption of consciousness, dissociation stemmed by trauma, the dissociation as a coping mechanism, and symptoms that can be seen in other mental illnesses such as depression. Examples of other dissociative disorders other than identity are also described, including dissociative amnesia, dissociative fugue, and depersonalization disorder. Dissociative Identity Disorder is described as the most famous of the dissociative disorders.