multiple personality disorder changed to d i d in 1994.
when did multiple personality disorder change to d i d?
1994
in 1994, the fourth edition of the dsm replaced the criteria again and changed the name of the condition from "multiple personality disorder" to the current "dissociative identity disorder" to emphasize the importance of changes to consciousness and identity rather than personality. the inclusion of interpersonality amnesia helped to distinguish did from dissociative disorder not otherwise specified, but the condition retains an inherent subjectivity due to difficulty in defining terms such as personality, identity, ego-state and even amnesia. the icd-10 still classifies did as a "dissociative [conversion] disorder" and retains the name "multiple personality disorder" with the classification number of f44.81.
dissociative identity disorder
hacking offers the reader some possible modes of questioning and critiquing the understandings of personality, memory and the disorder that have emerged within a historical context and, on occasions, he offers his own understanding of how these concepts have emerged and their implications to contemporary understandings of psychology. hacking does not question whether multiple personality disorder is real. rather, he offers a strategy for questioning reality: is the multiple personality disorder a real what? one might say, for example, that multiple personality disorder is a real mode of engaging with the world and a real way of understanding the past. in rewriting the soul, hacking seeks to examine why western society takes it for granted that “memory is the key to the soul” (p. 20) and why multiple personality disorder became so closely associated with traumatic memories.
rewriting the soul