#7 Jude Mirra, Psychiatry and the Multiple Personality Disorder Diagnosis
Episode 7 covers the case of Jude Mirra who was murdered by his mother. She believed that her and her son were being followed by a satanic cult who were ritually abusing him. She justified his murder with pseudo-scientific Facilitated Communication. The message “he” typed to his mother said “I need a lot of drugs to die peacefully…I wish u do it soon.” He was 8 years old, and autistic.
This horrible story shows how the diagnosis of MPD can lead to catastrophic events if used to explain sever mental disorders.
Multiple Personality Disorder(MPD) is not as clear cut as popular media would have you believe. In this episode we explore the complicated relationship between MPD and Freudian psychoanalysis, and where the psychiatry world stands on MPD today.
This horrible story shows how the diagnosis of MPD can lead to catastrophic events if used to explain sever mental disorders.
Multiple Personality Disorder(MPD) is not as clear cut as popular media would have you believe. In this episode we explore the complicated relationship between MPD and Freudian psychoanalysis, and where the psychiatry world stands on MPD today.
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