ฐานข้อมูลวิจัยด้านสุขภาพจิตและจิตเวช

ผู้วิจัย/Authors: Stephen t Jambunathan, and athers

ชื่อเรื่อง/Title: Dissociative identity disorder: an attempt to understand the disorder in Malaysian context.

แหล่งที่มา/Source: ASEAN Journal of Psychiatry .Vol 9, July-December 2008. page 118-125 .

รายละเอียด / Details:

Dissociation, including multiple personality disorder, has long been a controversial topic. Patients with suggestive symptoms are often misdiagnosed as malingering or even having schizophrenia. The former as a result of the overlooking of a clinician on the fact that suggestibility itself plays a key role in the emergence and perpetuation of this illness and the latter due to the lack of knowledge of the whole dissociative disorder spectrum, often resembling that of a psychotic disorder. Another contributing factor to the small number of patients with this diagnosis is due to the reluctance of a psychiatrist to do so because of his/her lack of experience and also fear of humiliation of being accused of seeking fame form diagnosing this somewhat glamorous phenomenon. In Malaysia, various culture bound syndromes often present with similar symptoms too. This article will attempt to understand this dissociation on the local context using case studies as a reference point.

Keywords: dissociative identity disorder, multiple personality disorder, culture bound syndromes

ปีที่เผยแพร่/Year: 2008

Address: Department of Psychological Medicine, Faculty of Medicine, University of Malaya, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

Code: 2010000230

ISSN/ISBN: 02183420

Country of publication: Thailand

Language: English

Category: Abstract

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