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Disassociative Disorder

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             This ideal of the philosopher as the highest human type--the theoretical intellect who from the vantage point of eternity can survey all time and existence -- is altogether foreign to the Hebraic concept of the man of faith, who is passionately committed to his own mortal being. Detachment was for the Hebrew an impermissible state of mind, a vice rather than a virtue; or rather it was something that the Biblical man was not yet even able to conceive, since he has not reached the level of rational abstraction of the Greek. His existence was too earth-bound, too laden with oppressive images of mortality, to permit him to experience the philosophers' detachment." .
             (Barrett, William. The Irrational Mind. ch.4, Doubleday. 1958).
             As I said earlier in my introduction that M.P.D. (Multiple Personality Disorder) is categorized with D.D. Both are dissociative disorders. For a long period of time, M.P.D. was diagnosed as demonic possession by the Christians instead of a mental disorder.
             "29 For Jesus had already commanded the evil spirit to come out of him. This spirit had often taken control of the man. Even when he was shackled with chains, he simply broke them and rushed out into the wilderness, completely under the demon's power. 30 "What is your name?" Jesus asked. "Legion," he replied - for the man was filled with many demons. " .
             (Bible. Luke 8:29-30).
             This man that is described in this verse of Luke in the Christian Bible clearly demonstrates M.P.D. It talks about how the man is "filled with many demons" or personalities. He is out of control and exibits signs that he is mentally deranged.
             Today, Christians still will misdiagnose this mental disorder for demonic possession instead of it's true mental disorder of M.P.D. We find this out from a missionary/Christian psychologist. He found out that he was misdiagnosing these people after taking a closer look.
             "After becoming a trained "Christian psychologist," Mungadze went back to Zimbabwe where he worked with "a group of villagers who had come to local churches for deliverance.


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