Watched Split last night.
Would have been a more pleasant viewing had I not already seen a documentary a couple years back which details how "multiple personalities" are a hoax diagnosis from a suspect profession pedaled by convicts who were looking for a way out of their sentences and a bunch of all-too-eager psychologists who'd staked their careers on sensationalist "new discoveries".
A real boom of MPD (Multiple Personality Disorder) diagnoses happened right after and around a shock investigation and trial of a serial killer some time in the 70s or 80s (I forget the name of the killer) who'd claimed to have been 'someone else' during the murders.
It took the courts a while to begin casting doubt and to stop accepting expert opinions as evidence, but ever since not a single case of MPD has been registered.
@Vonzales just to be clear, was the documentary saying that MPD was a _manufactured_ disorder used in legal defenses by opportunistic lawyers and psychologists? MPD was reclassified for the DSM V in 2014 as falling under a spectrum of dissociative identity disorders (DID). AFAIK, it's a real thing. I've met at least one person on CoSo who has said she suffers from it.
@hallmarc It said that namely having “multiple personalities” was a ruse manufactured by psychologists.
All persons claiming to have “multiple personalities” are faking it to achieve their personal ends, be it evasion of justice, or fame, or attention seeking, etc.
No medical evidence exists to substantiate this particular disorder outside of psychology which itself is a medical field only conditionally.
@Vonzales OK well it's interesting, right because psychiatry (actual medical doctors with training in psychology) and psychopharmacology require a high degree of familiarity with the human mind and physical structures of the brain. The danger with thinking a particular condition is a ruse in every case is that it can then be used as a pretext to disqualify other conditions like gender dysphoria, etc.
@hallmarc A distinction is being made between psychiatrists (doctors with medical degrees) and psychologists, tho
@Vonzales So the premise is that because the medical profession (neurologists and so forth) cannot identify specific probable causes in, e.g., brain structure and function, for a psychological condition, the condition does not exist, medically or otherwise? That seems shortsighted at best. I've learned that the mind has probably the most powerful effect on our long term general health, especially our immune system. Note that I'm not saying
other pathogens/physical conditions don't exist.
@hallmarc I don’t know what else to tell you :)
@Vonzales wasn't trying to be confrontational. All good...
@hallmarc It was definitely on Netflix among those serial-killer series that I used to watch extensively to put my mind at ease and distract myself from the horrors of the war. Might have been the one on Billy Milligan, but I'm not sure.