Disney Plus’ Moon Knight is new, but Hollywood’s ideas about dissociation go way back.
that a lack of clear diagnosing guidelines for DID is one of the more significant factors contributing to instances of false positive diagnoses and the general way in which DID comes to be misunderstood as a rare, exotic condition. When we recently spoke with Pietkewicz, he echoed Dr. Reinders’ belief about European psychiatric programs doing a lackluster job of training future clinicians and characterized DID as a “disease of hiddenness” due to sufferers tending to want to hide their symptoms.
“People who really have DID have been severely traumatized and usually try to hide or minimize their symptoms to pretend they don’t exist because they are terrifying for them,” Pietkiewicz said. “Take a core symptom like amnesia. You’re talking to me now, but imagine suddenly finding yourself in a supermarket with no idea how you got there or who put things in your cart. It would be terrifying because you’d think your mind was playing bizarre tricks on you.
Something both Dr. Reinders and Dr. Pietkiewicz emphasized is that, as alarming as DID’s symptoms can be to people with it, the core trauma that first led to the disorder — often sexual and at the hands of a caregiver — is far more devastating and not something to make light of.
“I think Hollywood has to be very careful about DID and giving people the idea they might have it,” Pietkiewicz said. “Especially teaching them about the core symptoms and subtleties.”’s far from being the most salacious depiction of DID Hollywood’s ever produced.
“Because DID is so prone to skepticism, it has been really hard for me to get funding for my research,” Reinders said. “But this research and training are very important. Training for therapists and developing more expertise costs time, and it costs money.“
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