Why would LE release the tapes of the interviews? Could it be they read forums/blogs and hope that others hearing the tapes will give them some insight into this case? Maybe they thought the tapes would be listened to by more people, compared to those who read the 400 pg document.
I don't understand this.
Maybe Casey has Multiple Personality Disorder and she and Zenaida are one and the same.
Isabelle,
Ray'sMom
No. I worked with a lot of "MPD" (now it's called DID) cases in the mid-80s. It's MUCH rarer than is generally known, and is even thought to be iatrogenic (doctor-caused) by many shrinks.
I saw at least five dozen diagnoses cases. In EVERY case, the actual diagnosis turned out to be borderline personality disorder. Borderlines are very suggestable. So, wheh a shrink alluded to MPD, the patient just ran with it.
Here are some considerations:
-- DID only exists in the United States (or that was the case when I was working)
-- The famous "Sybil" was no longer a multi, after she changed therapists.
-- The famous "Eve" was also cured after she changed therapists.
-- Every case that came to us lost the "alters" when they changed therapists.
One other thing:
-- A real case would show a lot of "losing time" and "getting lost" in fairly early childhod. The symptoms would be hard to miss. It does not spring into being in adulthood,
One really nasty thing:
-- In the cases we received, the diganosis often went by the maximum psych benefit on the insurance policy. A max of $25K often yielded a diagnosis of depression. A million dollar max patient was often diagnoses MPD. Most of the time, the problem was actually personality disorder.
BTW-- One then-famous "celebrity hospital" in Los Angeles lost its psych licensure because it cranked out so much "MPD." Patients were given sodium amytal "interveiws," and suggestions were actually planted in patients minds.
About ten years after this disgnostic fad faded, "Sixty Minutes" did a segment on the lawsuits filed by the patients who were misdiagnosed and inappropriately treated.
I'm not saying DID doesn't exist. I'm saying I worked for a very large medical case management company, and we never saw a real case.