dissociative identity disorder

mental disorder that includes multiple personality states ("alters"), dissociation and amnesia

Class type of: dissociative disorder, identity disorder, multiplicity Q18657

Facts

14 properties

Instance of: class of disease
Subclass of: dissociative disorder, identity disorder, multiplicity, mental disorder
Depicted by: The Three Faces of Eve, Frankie and Alice, Waking Madison, First Person Plural^[27]^[28]^[29]^[30]
Different from: personality disorder, schizophrenia, antisocial personality disorder, split personality, alter ego, persona in a work of fiction, mood swing, borderline personality disorder^[33]^[34]^[35]^[36]^[37]^[38]^[39]^[40]
Has cause: psychological trauma, childhood trauma, misdiagnosis, iatrogenesis^[12]^[13]^[14]^[15]
Health specialty: psychiatry, psychology^[41]^[42]
ICD-9-CM: 300.14^[31]
Medical examination: Medical Interview, questionnaire, observation, Dissociative Experiences Scale, Multiscale Dissociation Inventory^[16]^[17]^[18]^[19]^[20]
NCI Thesaurus ID: C94330^[32]
On focus list of Wikimedia project: WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject Psychiatry, WikiProject Psychology^[43]^[44]^[45]
Possible treatment: psychotherapy, supportive care, counseling, psychoeducation, art therapy^[21]^[22]^[23]^[24]^[25]
Prevalence: +0.015^[26]
Said to be the same as: multiplicity^[6]
Symptoms and signs: multiplicity, amnesia, depersonalization, derealization, dissociation^[7]^[8]^[9]^[10]^[11]

🏷️ Also known as

en dissociative identity disorder en multiple personality disorder en multiple personality en DID en MPD ar اضطراب الهوية التفارقي ar اضطراب تعدد الشخصيات cs Disociativní porucha identity da personlighedsspaltning de dissoziative Identitätsstruktur de dissoziative Identitätsstörung de MPS de multiple Persönlichkeitsstörung de DIS de multiple Persönlichkeit el Διαταραχή πολλαπλής προσωπικότητας el Διασχιστική διαταραχή ταυτότητας es Transtorno de Identidad Disociativo es Trastorno Disociativo de Identidad es TID

🔖 Identifiers · 50

Library of Congress Authorities ID: sh85088368
GND ID: 4170719-9
OpenAlex ID: C2778077901, C2910058786
Archive of Our Own tag: Dissociative Identity Disorder
BBC Things ID: 0969f8a0-dec4-47f2-9d65-59cff67140bb
BNCF Thesaurus ID: 55653
Bibliothèque nationale de France ID: 11955143n
Cultureel Woordenboek ID: levenswetenschappen-en-geneeskunde/dissociatieve-identiteitsstoornis
DSM-5 code: 300.14
DSM-IV code: 300.14
DeCS ID: 9295
Dewey Decimal Classification: 616.85236

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Disease Ontology ID: DOID:10934
EMedicine ID: 916186
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026): 1lhmQJ
Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) old ID (2021): 25682
Encyclopædia Britannica Online ID: science/dissociative-identity-disorder
Exact match: purl.obolibrary.org, identifiers.org
Fandom article ID: starwars:Multiple_personality_disorder
Freebase ID: /m/09wnd
Harper's tag: multiple-personality
IATE entry ID: 184972
ICD-10-CM: F44.81
ICD-11 ID (Foundation): 1829103493
ICD-11 ID (MMS): 6B64
J9U entity ID: 987007550961805171
JSTOR topic ID (archived): multiple-personality-disorder
KBpedia ID: MultiplePersonalityDisorder
Lex ID: personlighedsspaltning
MeSH descriptor ID: D009105
MeSH tree code: F03.300.500
Microsoft Academic ID (discontinued): 2778077901
Moegirlpedia ID: 多重人格
Mondo ID: MONDO_0001159
NDL Authority ID: 00572744
Namuwiki ID: 해리성 정체감 장애
Oxford Reference overview ID: 20110803095722236
PatientsLikeMe condition ID: dissociative-identity-disorder
PhilPapers topic: dissociative-identity-disorder
Pixiv Encyclopedia ID: 解離性同一性障害
Quora topic ID: Dissociative-Identity-Disorder
SNOMED CT ID: 31611000
ScienceDirect topic ID: medicine-and-dentistry/dissociative-identity-disorder, neuroscience/dissociative-identity-disorder, psychology/dissociative-identity-disorder, social-sciences/dissociative-identity-disorder, nursing-and-health-professions/multiple-personality, pharmacology-toxicology-and-pharmaceutical-science/multiple-personality
Subreddit: DID
UMLS CUI: C0026773, C0013259
WikiKids ID: Dissociatieve_identiteitsstoornis
WikiProjectMed ID: Dissociative identity disorder, Dissociative_identity_disorder
Wolfram Language entity code: Entity["Disease", "ICDNine300.14"], Entity["Disease", {"ICDNine300.14", "Primary"}]
YSO ID: 29770
Yale LUX ID: concept/65fae4d3-c737-4a2b-9eb7-960955bb7d15

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🔗 Connections

Different from 6

schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, alter ego, mood swing

← Different from 5

schizophrenia, borderline personality disorder, personality disorder, antisocial personality disorder, alter ego

← Main subject 5

Split, The Three Faces of Eve, Raising Cain, Jonathan, Frankie and Alice

Possible treatment 4

psychotherapy, art therapy, psychoeducation, counseling

Symptoms and signs 4

amnesia, dissociation, depersonalization, derealization

Depicted by 3

The Three Faces of Eve, Frankie and Alice, Waking Madison

Has cause 2

psychological trauma, childhood trauma

Health specialty 2

psychology, psychiatry

Medical examination 2

observation, questionnaire

On focus list of Wikimedia project 2

WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject Psychology

Instance of 1

mental disorder

Subclass of 1

dissociative disorder

← Depicts 1

Wonderful Everyday

← Field of work 1

Meg-John Barker

← Medical condition treated 1

ego-state therapy

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Summary

dissociative identity disorder is a class of disease^[1]. It is a type of dissociative disorder^[2], identity disorder^[3], multiplicity^[4], and mental disorder^[5].

References

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Direct Wikidata claims

[2] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — subclass of (P279): dissociative disorder. Monarch Disease Ontology release 2018-06-29. Retrieved 2018-07-27. wikidata.org.
[3] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — subclass of (P279): identity disorder. wikidata.org.
[4] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — subclass of (P279): multiplicity. wikidata.org.
[5] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — subclass of (P279): mental disorder. DSM-III subclassification of dissociative disorders applied to psychiatric outpatients in India. wikidata.org.
[6] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — said to be the same as (P460): multiplicity. Retrieved 2026-01-14. wikidata.org.
[7] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — symptoms and signs (P780): multiplicity. Retrieved 2026-01-14. wikidata.org.
[8] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — symptoms and signs (P780): amnesia. Retrieved 2026-01-14. wikidata.org.
[9] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — symptoms and signs (P780): depersonalization. Retrieved 2026-01-16. wikidata.org.
[10] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — symptoms and signs (P780): derealization. Retrieved 2026-01-16. wikidata.org.
[11] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — symptoms and signs (P780): dissociation. wikidata.org.
[12] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — has cause (P828): psychological trauma. DSM-IV. id.who.int. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[13] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — has cause (P828): childhood trauma. DSM-5. msdmanuals.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[14] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — has cause (P828): misdiagnosis. scottlilienfeld.com. scottlilienfeld.com. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[15] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — has cause (P828): iatrogenesis. cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl. cris.maastrichtuniversity.nl. Provenance: wikidata.org.
[16] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — medical examination (P923): Medical Interview. Guidelines for Treating Dissociative Identity Disorder in Adults, Third Revision. wikidata.org.
[17] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — medical examination (P923): questionnaire. wikidata.org.
[18] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — medical examination (P923): observation. wikidata.org.
[19] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — medical examination (P923): Dissociative Experiences Scale. wikidata.org.
[20] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — medical examination (P923): Multiscale Dissociation Inventory. wikidata.org.
[21] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — possible treatment (P924): psychotherapy. wikidata.org.
[22] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — possible treatment (P924): supportive care. wikidata.org.
[23] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — possible treatment (P924): counseling. wikidata.org.
[24] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — possible treatment (P924): psychoeducation. wikidata.org.
[25] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — possible treatment (P924): art therapy. wikidata.org.
[26] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — prevalence (P1193): 0.015. DSM-5. wikidata.org.
[27] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — depicted by (P1299): The Three Faces of Eve. wikidata.org.
[28] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — depicted by (P1299): Frankie and Alice. wikidata.org.
[29] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — depicted by (P1299): Waking Madison. wikidata.org.
[30] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — depicted by (P1299): First Person Plural. wikidata.org.
[31] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — ICD-9-CM (P1692): 300.14. wikidata.org.
[32] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — NCI Thesaurus ID (P1748): C94330. Disease Ontology. Retrieved 2019-05-15. wikidata.org.
[33] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — different from (P1889): personality disorder. wikidata.org.
[34] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — different from (P1889): schizophrenia. wikidata.org.
[35] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — different from (P1889): antisocial personality disorder. wikidata.org.
[36] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — different from (P1889): split personality. wikidata.org.
[37] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — different from (P1889): alter ego. wikidata.org.
[38] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — different from (P1889): persona in a work of fiction. wikidata.org.
[39] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — different from (P1889): mood swing. wikidata.org.
[40] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — different from (P1889): borderline personality disorder. wikidata.org.
[41] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — health specialty (P1995): psychiatry. wikidata.org.
[42] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — health specialty (P1995): psychology. wikidata.org.
[43] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Medicine. wikidata.org.
[44] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Psychiatry. wikidata.org.
[45] ↑ dissociative identity disorder — on focus list of Wikimedia project (P5008): WikiProject Psychology. wikidata.org.

Class ancestry

[1] ↑ dissociative identity disorder is an instance of class of disease (Q112193867) [P31, primary]. Wikidata. wikidata.org.

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3d ago · VastV0idInSpace0 · 2026-11-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗

DeCS ID → 9295

"Created claim: DeCS ID: 9295, Matched to Dissociative Identity Disorder (#107238716) in DeCS…"
3d ago · VastV0idInSpace0 · 2026-11-09 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Oxford Reference overview ID → 20110803095722236

IATE entry ID → 184972

"Created claim: Oxford Reference overview ID: 20110803095722236, Matched to dissociative identity disorder (#177827265) in…"
7d ago · VastV0idInSpace0 · 2026-11-05 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Wikidata description → mental disorder that includes multiple personality states ("

WikiProjectMed ID → Dissociative identity disorder, Dissociative_identity_disorder

Has cause → psychological trauma, childhood trauma, misdiagnosis +1

"Changed [en] description: mental disorder that includes multiple personality states ("alters"), dissociation and amnesia"
9w ago · ~2026-34922-78 · 2026-09-07 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Has cause → psychological trauma, childhood trauma, misdiagnosis +1

"Created claim: Has cause: misdiagnosis"
10w ago · ~2026-34922-78 · 2026-09-02 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Wikidata description → mental disorder that includes multiple personality states ("

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Encyclopedia of China (Third Edition) ID (2026) → 1lhmQJ

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #40849: ZGBK ID"
18w ago · JhealdBatch bot · 2026-07-03 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Subclass of → dissociative disorder, identity disorder, multiplicity +1

Instance of → class of disease

"Changed the item: QuickStatements 3.0 batch #39742: subclass of disease, not instance"
19w ago · Susmuffin · 2026-06-28 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Harper's tag → multiple-personality

"Created claim: Harper's tag: multiple-personality, Matched to multiple personality (#289955175) in…"
25w ago · Twofivesixbot bot · 2026-05-18 view diff on Wikidata ↗

Has cause → psychological trauma, childhood trauma, misdiagnosis +1

Symptoms and signs → multiplicity, amnesia, depersonalization +1

Medical examination → Medical Interview, questionnaire, observation +1

On focus list of Wikimedia project → WikiProject Medicine, WikiProject Psychiatry, WikiProject Psychology

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