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Stuff You Should Know

SYSK Selects: How Dissociative Identity Disorder Works

Stuff You Should Know

iHeartPodcasts

Society & Culture

4.679.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 April 2020

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Summary

Dissociative Identity Disorder was known as multiple personality disorder until a case of mass hysteria brought on by the movie-mad public and unscrupulous psychiatrists led to a stigma over the term. Now psychiatry has gotten serious about the condition. Learn more in this classic episode.

Transcript

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0:00.0

There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.

0:05.7

That's why we launched The Big Take.

0:08.3

It's a daily podcast from Bloomberg and I Heart Radio that turns down the volume a bit

0:14.0

to give you some space to think.

0:16.4

I'm Wes Kosova.

0:17.7

Each weekday I dig into one important story and talk about why it matters.

0:23.6

Listen to The Big Take on The I Heart Radio App, Apple Podcasts or wherever you listen.

0:30.9

Hi there everybody, it's me Josh and for this week's S.Y.S.K.S.

0:34.6

Selects, I've chosen our episode on dissociative identity disorder, formerly known as multiple personality disorder.

0:41.0

It's one of those very satisfying episodes where we get to go behind and undo all of the incorrect things everybody assumes that they know about it.

0:51.3

Which is fun for us and I hope it's fun for you to listen and learn.

0:55.2

So away with the show.

1:00.8

Welcome to Step You Should Know, a production of I Heart Radio's House Stuff Works.

1:10.6

Hey and welcome to the podcast, I'm Josh Clark, there's Charles W. Chuck Bryant and there's Noel.

1:16.5

Is Noel one of my altars?

1:18.5

No.

1:19.7

He's his own dude.

1:22.0

Do you have altars?

1:23.0

No.

1:23.7

Okay.

1:25.5

Do you?

1:26.4

No, not that I know.

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