What if your mind created roommates you never asked for?
Formerly known as ‘multiple personality disorder’, dissociative identity disorder, the most common cause of which is severe childhood trauma, is a condition recognised by psychiatry but still poorly understood, to the extent that it is sometimes called into question. Alongside patients and researchers, we delve into the mechanisms and daily implications of this pervasive condition.
Direction
Wieskerstrauch refuses spectacle, lets patients speak.
Editing
Seamless switches between clinical and intimate.
Production
Sparse aesthetic that respects subjects' autonomy.
Director
Liz Wieskerstrauch
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
DID remains one of psychiatry's most contested diagnoses, with some researchers arguing it's iatrogenic (created by therapy itself) while patients report symptoms predating any clinical contact.
The film notably avoids the 'Sybil' pop-culture spectacle, instead showing mundane realities: one subject's alters disagree on pizza toppings. The banality is the point.
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