People who experience chronic trauma that continues or repeats for months or years at a time. Some have suggested that the current PTSD diagnosis does not fully capture the severe psychological harm that occurs with prolonged, repeated trauma. In 1988, Dr. Judith Herman of Harvard University suggested that a new diagnosis, complex PTSD, was needed […]
Complex Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) Read Post »
Multiple personality disorder had been used until 1994 and the idea was that there was additional information with these personalities, with these alters. So in a sense these alters were growing they were developing as individuals. In 1994 name is changed to Dissociative identity disorder (DID). With DID our understanding is that these alters are
John Wayne Gacy (March 17, 1942 – May 10, 1994) was an American serial killer and sex offender who raped, tortured, and murdered at least 33 young men and boys in Norwood Park Township, near Chicago, Illinois. His conviction for thirty-three murders, by one individual, then covered the most homicides in United States legal history. Gacy was sentenced to death on March 13,
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