Question

Think carefully about the human actions and events portrayed in the film Split. Then, to make sense of this material, apply what you know about psychology and Dissociative Identity Disorder that explain his behavior. How is switching from one identity to the next ported in this movie? Explain the relationships between the alters, such mutually amnesic etc. How do the subpersonalities differ from one another? Physiological differences?Elaborate on how the selected scene illustrates the principle you have identified. It’s also ok to write about how a scene might fail to follow accurate descriptions of DID. It's very important that you do more than simply say something like “this scene illustrates DID.” You must be specific on precisely how and in what form the scene illustrates DID, or how it fails to support what you learned about DID.

Answer 1

Split, a captivating thriller about the kidnapping of 3 teenage girls offers tremendous insight into the mind of a villain with Dissociative Identity Disorder, also called Split personality. This disorder is still a mystery to psychologists and it is presumed that even if it does exist, it is a result of trauma, after which multiple personalities emerge within the same individual i response to the pain of the past that has not been dealt with yet. It goes without saying that this subconscious series of choices is severely dysfunctional, and the therapeutic end goal is integration - get back to a single, coherent sense of identity.

In the movie, we see how the mind and body once takes the form of a 9-year old at one moment and the next, he is a 24 year old British female with Obsessive compulsive Disorder. The movie shows the actual struggle faced by people who suffer from this disorder, and the movie did a good job in portraying how the personalities change within such people. It is hard for the general public and clinicians to believe that this disorder actually exists. However, there are a lot of people that are struggling with this as we speak, and the movie did a good job in bringing this out in the open and making more people aware of this condition.