Most likely he's worried about getting his ass canned.
DID is on the outs with a lot of mental health professionals. They'll claim it doesn't exist and shouldn't be used as a diagnosis even though it's still in the books.
Academics who have corresponded with us say they cannot bring it up at all -- if their superiors find out they believe there is such a thing, it could ruin their career.
One guy who wrote to had some operating system stuff going on, he told his therapist about it so they could work on it, and she put in a DID diagnosis so insurance would pay for the sessions, and the next day her clinic fired her. She was told there was no such diagnosis.
We're talking even textbook DID here by the modern definition, not multiplicity in the sense that there are actually separate individuals and so on, and not multiplicity as healthy and not a disorder.
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Date: 2005-03-09 04:33 am (UTC)DID is on the outs with a lot of mental health professionals. They'll claim it doesn't exist and shouldn't be used as a diagnosis even though it's still in the books.
Academics who have corresponded with us say they cannot bring it up at all -- if their superiors find out they believe there is such a thing, it could ruin their career.
One guy who wrote to had some operating system stuff going on, he told his therapist about it so they could work on it, and she put in a DID diagnosis so insurance would pay for the sessions, and the next day her clinic fired her. She was told there was no such diagnosis.
We're talking even textbook DID here by the modern definition, not multiplicity in the sense that there are actually separate individuals and so on, and not multiplicity as healthy and not a disorder.