CHILD-ABUSE AND DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER MULTIPLE PERSONALITY-DISORDER - THE DOCUMENTATION OF CHILDHOOD MALTREATMENT AND THE CORROBORATION OF SYMPTOMS/

There is a consensus in the literature that early, severe maltreatment antedates dissociative identity disorder/multiple personality disorde r (DID/MPD). Most data on maltreatment, however, are gathered retrospe ctively from the patient only. This article presents the cases of six violent, incarcerated men with DID/MPD. II documents from records and family interviews their childhood and adult dissociative symptoms and signs and their abusive childhood experiences.