| Abstract: | Responds to a comment by T. Gee et al (see record 2003-04125-019) about the authors' original article (see record 1999-03012-003) which studied how clinicians treating dissociative identity disorder (DID) were or were not gathering and utilizing corroborative data. Results of this study show that many of the symptoms associated with DID were displayed by patients before entering therapy or prior to diagnosis. Gee et al argue that these results do not refute the sociocognitive model (a modified iatrogenesis model) of DID, but actually support it. The present authors maintain that their data did clearly contradict the iatrogenesis position. It is asserted that Gee et al's comment illustrates many important flaws of the iatrogenic DID argument, primarily that it is unscientific by virtue of being nondisconfirmable, and that it can only be maintained by adhering to false assumptions about DID and by misinterpreting data. (PsycINFO Database Record (c) 2010 APA, all rights reserved) |
