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Resources

Research, clinical guidelines, and educational references behind this recovery guide.

Clinical Guidelines

Professional guidance for assessment, stabilization, and treatment planning.

Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision·ISSTD, 2011

Clinical guideline covering diagnosis, covert presentation, assessment, and phase-oriented treatment.

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Myths and Differential Diagnosis

Evidence for careful assessment without turning skepticism into dismissal.

Separating Fact from Fiction: An Empirical Examination of Six Myths About DID·Brand et al., 2016

Open-access review addressing common empirical myths about DID.

MythsEvidenceResearch review
Fact or Factitious? A Psychobiological Study of Authentic and Simulated Dissociative Identity States·Reinders et al., 2012

Psychobiological comparison of DID identity states and simulated identity states.

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Revisiting False-Positive and Imitated Dissociative Identity Disorder·Pietkiewicz et al., 2021

Differential diagnosis paper focused on false-positive and imitated DID presentations.

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Mental illness and violent behavior: the role of dissociation·Webermann & Brand, 2017

Study on criminal justice involvement and violence stereotypes in dissociative disorders.

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