Debunker Fallacies:  A Brief Review

Most debunkers of multiple personality have had little or no direct experience with people who have multiple personality.  They pander to other people who have never seen actual multiple personality.  The reason it has not been removed from the psychiatric diagnostic manual is that debunkers cannot cite legitimate research to support their position.

Debunkers think that multiple personality is imposed on patients by therapists who believe in it.  And it is certainly true that a belief in almost anything can be imposed on some people.  But that also means that a therapist’s belief that people have only one personality can be imposed on patients.  Debunkers somehow fail to address that possibility.  And since most persons with multiple personality have a single host personality, they usually do look like they have one personality.

Multiple personality is harder to impose upon patients than other diagnoses, because it is the craziest diagnosis that most patients can imagine.  It means that they often don’t know who they are or what they do!  Who would want to be like that?

It is true that persons with multiple personality may have false memories, as may most people.  And you should never believe memories without corroboration.  Indeed, memories in multiple personality may sometimes be imaginative fantasies, which is why multiple personality may be a core asset of fiction writers.