All in the Mind, hosted by Natasha Mitchell, is one of the best psychology podcasts on the web, and now the show is going off the air. I'm sad about this - but she is moving on to bigger and better things.
In honor of the show's ten years on the radio (ABC Radio National in Australia), they have been posting some of their best shows, including the one below.
Many Selves, One Body: Dissociation and early trauma
We all dissociate to a degree—compartmentalising major traumatic experiences in our psyche to protect ourselves. But Dissociation Identity Disorder is the extreme end, where a person might present multiple selves or 'alters' to the world without fully knowing it—swapping clothes, life histories and personalities each time they 'switch'. Don't miss this firsthand account.Transcript
ShowGuests
- Professor Warwick Middleton
- Brisbane based psychiatrist in private practice Adjunct Professor, School of Public Health, La Trobe University Associate Professor of Psychiatry, University of Queensland Chair, Cannan Institute Director, Trauma and Dissociation Unit, Belmont Hospital
- Zoe Farris
- Queensland Association of Mental Health
Publications
- Title: When Me Means Me: Multiple Personality - A View from the Inside
- Author: Zoe Long (now Farris) & Co
- Publisher: Queensland Association of Mental Health Inc, 1996 (booklet)
- Title: Dissociative Identity Disorder: An Australian series
- Author: Warwick Middleton and Jeremy Butler
- Publisher: Aust N Z J Psychiatry. 1998 Dec;32(6):794-804
- Title: Dissociative Identity Disorder: Multiple Personalities, Multiple Controversies
- Author: Scott Lilienfield and Steven Jay Lynn
- Publisher: in Science and Pseudoscience in Clinical Psychology (edited by Scott O. Lilienfeld, Steven Jay Lynn, Jeffrey M. Lohr), 2004
- Title: A Clinician's Understanding of Dissociation: Fragments of an Acquaintance
- Author: Richard P Kluft
- Publisher: in Dissociation and Dissociative Disorders: DSM-V and Beyond (edited by Paul F Dell, and John A O'Neill), Routledge, 2009
- Title: Historical conceptions of dissociation and psychosis: Nineteenth and earlt twentieth century perspectives on severe psychopathology
- Author: Warwick Middleton, Martin Dorahy, Andrew Moskowitz
- Publisher: in Psychosis, Trauma and Dissociation (edited by Andrew Moskowitz, Ingo Scahfer and Martin Dorahy), John Wiley and Sons, 2008
- Title: A New Model of Dissociative Identity Disorder
- Author: Paul F Dell
- Publisher: Psychiatric Clinics of North America (Psychaitr Clin N Am), 2006, 1-26
- Title: Owning the past, claiming the present - perspectives on the treatment of dissociative patients
- Author: Warwick Middleton
- Publisher: Australiasian Psychiatry, Vol 13, No 1, March 2005
- Title: Remembering the past, anticipating the future
- Author: Warwick Middleton, Lisa De Marni Cromer, Jennifer Freyd
- Publisher: Australasian Psychiatry, Vol 13, No 3, September 2005
- Title: The Persistence of Folly: A Critical Examination of Dissociative Identity Disorder. Part I. The Excesses of an Improbable Concept
- Author: August Piper, Harold Merskey
- Publisher: Canadian Journal of Psychiatry, Vol 49, No 9, September 2004
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