rought out of her trance, ...she suddenly declared, those arent my pictures! Those are Doctor Rosss pictures! (Ross 157). The woman insisted that Ross had ...implanted these memories by suggestion (Ross 157). She was offended that I would ever think such a thing about her father, or try to get her to think the same (Ross 157). However, Ross had never even mentioned sexual abuse by her father to the patient.In recent years, there has been a dramatic rise in the amount of interest paid to disassociative identity disorder. There are several reasons for this, not the least of which is ...the recognition of DID as a free-standing condition, and the provision of landmark clinical descriptions in The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, third edition (Alexander, et al. 339). Feminism made a powerful impact by sensitizing the mental health professionals ...to the hitherto unacknowledged high incidence of child abuse, incest, and the exploitation of women (Alexander, et al. 339). Therapists no longer dismiss their adult patients accounts of childhood abuse as a mere fantasy, and the recognition of disassociative identity disorder of sexually abused females has soared.Also, ...there has been an explosion of interest in post traumatic stress disorder, which, like DID, occurs consequent to trauma, and has been documented in children following their exposure to, among other things, natural disasters (i.e. the Oakland, California firestorm of 1991). The similarity between the two conditions brought credibility to disassociative identity disorder. The media has also played a role in the resurgence of interest, with its fictional representation of DID cases such as in the films Primal Fear and The Color of Night-much as it did with Sybil and The Three Faces of Eve. Perhaps with this increased interest in and acceptance of both DID and its causative roots, children trying to survive severely abusive situations will be removed ...
