The Moving Pictures

Here are 3 DID related video items

1. Canada is whipping out a TV Detective who has DID

http://www.tv-eh.com/2010/08/12/shattered-to-premiere-september-1-on-global/

Shattered to premiere September 1 on Global

Posted by: Diane in Shattered

Ben Sullivan (Callum Keith Rennie) is a tough, smart homicide detective with Multiple Personality Disorder. In the first moments of the series, Ben and his new partner Amy Lynch (Camille Sullivan) pursue a murder suspect and Lynch is forced to shoot. The resulting SIU investigation bonds the two partners in blood.

Each week they work to solve the murder cases that cross their desk daily, while Ben copes with the fascinating complexities of managing his life as a cop while living as a man with alternate personalities and the uncertainty of never knowing which personality will surface, or when.

2.  Short film or trailer? German release: D.I.D.

http://vimeo.com/groups/shortfilms/videos/13619331

D. I. D. (dissociative identity disorder)

A film by: Dmytriy Golumbevskiy & Ivan Kvasha

Starring: Ivan Kvasha, Sergey Mudruk

Canon 550d  Kit lenses & 50mm 1.8

Editing: Premiere Pro CS5   Color correction: After Effects CS5

3.  An Entire Youtube Channel

The Diva has not watched most of these…

http://www.youtube.com/user/awesomeastrid#p/a

MPD/DID the M.O.M Series Representaion of Mosaic Gang

Comments Requested

The Diva thinks this short video is very strong in some ways, but she has issues with the beginning and setting which may make for a dramatic set-up but don’t help with stigmatizing perceptions. What do you think?

Please Pardon My…

“neuro-realism”

(Neuro-realism reflects the uncritical way in which a fMRI investigation can be taken as validation or invalidation of our ordinary view of the world. Neuro-realism is, therefore, grounded in the belief that fMRI enables us to capture a ‘visual proof’ of brain activity, despite the enormous complexities of data acquisition and image processing.)

…Until some intrepid team of well funded debunkers accurately and repeatably tears down the statistical analysis methods of the various and specific FMRI studies bolstering the existence of differing brain activity patterns for alter ego states in cases of DID.

Whew! that was a mouth full! I hope you follow my point.  I wonder if this is the vanguard for the next skeptic brigade? We shall see I suppose.

Of course it might help discussion in general if I got to some point near half way finished of listing those studies and others here on the site.  The Diva asks for your forgiveness in that area as well, but she’s been busy with out of town guests.

Yes, Annie, “Follow the trail of personalities!”… was very funny. Various of us are still giggling.

New Blog on DID by Prominent Author

Matthew Branton re-surfaces here: http://matthewbranton.wordpress.com/

From the About page:

Matthew Branton is a defrocked former novelist, author of The Love Parade, The House of Whacks, Coast and The Hired Gun, amongst far too many others. He disappeared up his own fundament in 2003, following a particularly crunchy breakdown, but is finally ready to start publishing again (I’m a bit backed-up, as Princess Di used to say to her hydrotherapist). His malaises include complex-PTSD and Dissociative Identity Disorder, which means he doesn’t need anyone else for a rubber of bridge. He likes surfing, longboard skating, and desecrating The Cramps on his gee-tar.

Heal well and keep sharing your writing gift, Matthew, the Diva is a fan already.

New Promising Memoir

Day Breaks Over Dharamsala: A Memoir of Life Lost and Found

By Janet Thomas

(Excerpt from the first chapter.) This has, of course, created doubt and dismay as I’ve tried to heal from the electric shocks that could never happen but did; the sexual slavery as a child that only my body remembers; the experiments that happened to someone else In my body; the days and nights in the dark that made indistinguishable my self from all that did not exist; the places where I became an animal, where being debased for the enjoyment of others was my charm and my glory. I heal from it all, even as I know it could never have happened to me. It is what I don’t know that has both saved me and condemned me. And it seems, at times, as though there is no difference.

I do bear one visible scar. It’s four inches long and reaches down the inside of my left forearm. On my left hand are five-year old fingers and a thumb that does not bend. There is not much feeling in this hand. It is a hand that is always cold, always numb, always looked after by my other hand–the right one, the one that writes, that does everything. “The scar is real,” it writes. It is a huge scar. It is connected to medical experiments and electric shocks to see if the severed nerve would grow, and electric shocks to make sure I didn’t remember the electric shocks. And shocks to obliterate the memory of the sexual exploitation, the manipulation of my mind, and the banishment of my self to a place of hiding so profound it would take me fifty years to get her back.

So, if I don’t “remember” being cut, does it make the scar unreal? This is what I would ask those who think recovered memory is a hoax, that there is only truth in the literal and sequential naming of memory and recognition. The real truth is that the scar on my arm is of little consequence. But the reasons it is there scared and scarred the very soul out of me. My five year old self lives in my five year old fingers. It is a hand I hold dear. A hand that tells me the truth and always holds me accountable to what it knows.

Pretty Much There…

The Diva is a little overwhelmed having assigned to herself the review and consolidation of the most recent neuro-imaging and academic findings on Dissociative Identity Disorder concurrently with producing all new artwork for a solo show, plus shipping and delivering for two group shows within the space of two month’s time.
Fear not however, as we are very close to an initial fleshing out of this new medium, this site, the Diva’s lair, or podium/soapbox. Please send us your commentary.
Thank you,
The Diva.

The “Debate” reaches NPR’s Science Friday

Two Personalities, One Brain?

Once, there was ‘Sybil,’ and ‘The Three Faces of Eve.’ Now, there’s the Showtime series ‘The United States of Tara.’ In this segment, we’ll talk about the condition “dissociative identity disorder,” also known as “multiple personality disorder.” Can one brain truly house multiple, unconnected personalities?

Guests:

Kathy Steele
Psychotherapist, Clinical Nurse Specialist
President, International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation
Clinical Director, Metropolitan Counseling Services
Atlanta, Georgia

Numan Gharaibeh
Staff Psychiatrist, Department of Psychiatry
Danbury Hospital
Danbury, Connecticut

“I mean, there isn’t [a] way to for a fad to show up, I think, on a functional MRI or on a PET scan.” -Kathy Steele.

Transcript

Heard on Talk of the Nation

November 13, 2009 – IRA FLATOW, host:

Up next, dissociative identity disorder. Back in the old days, they used to be called multiple personality disorder. And if you know that name, you probably remember seeing Sally Field play Sybil in the movie. Sybil was reportedly based on a true story about a woman that had suffered horrible abuse. And to cope with that she formed different personalities – and as many as 16 different personalities the story goes.

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The Diva