How Dissociative Identity Disorder Works

Josh and Chuck tackle the complex and controversial world of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder. They explore how this condition works, from the host personality to various "alters" that can emerge during times of stress, and dive into the wild history of how psychiatry both exploited and sensationalized cases like "The Three Faces of Eve" and "Sybil" in the mid-20th century. The hosts discuss how the disorder was renamed and reformed in 1994 after years of questionable treatment practices, and they examine what modern psychiatry believes about this still-debated condition.