An eye for an I: a 35-year-old woman with fluctuating oculomotor deficits and dissociative identity disorder. International journal of clinical and experimental hypnosis Bhuvaneswar, C., Spiegel, D. 2013; 61 (3): 351-370

Abstract

Abstract Physiologic changes, including neurological or pseudo-neurological symptoms, occur across identity states in dissociative identity disorder (DID) and can be objectively measured. The idea that dissociative phenomena might be associated with changes in brain function is consistent with research on the brain effects of hypnosis. The authors report a case of psycho-physiologic differences among 4 alter personalities manifested by a 35-year-old woman with DID. Differences in visual acuity, frequency of pendular nystagmus, and handedness were observed in this patient both when the alter personalities appeared spontaneously and when elicited under hypnosis. The authors consider several diagnostic possibilities for these findings and discuss whether prevailing treatment recommendations for DID patients could possibly be modified to ameliorate such visual and neurologic symptoms.

View details for DOI 10.1080/00207144.2013.784115

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