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Astickler for homework, M. Night Shyamalan
has done much research into Dissociative
Identity Disorder, otherwise known as Multiple
Personality Disorder. DID is still the black sheep
of the psychiatric world, many believing that
patients invent their “multiples” to dodge prison
sentences or that therapists actually “push” the
DID diagnosis on fragile patients who may be
suffering from other psychiatric disorders.
When STACK meets with the director in Los
Angeles, his eyes light up at the sheer numbers.
“Oh there are as many as like 60 personalities
[that have] been diagnosed in one patient. Tons!
I mean even Sybil Dorset had 16 and the famous
ones, like Billy Milligan, was 22, or something
like that,” he says, referencing The Minds of Billy
Milligan, a film treatment to which Leonardo
DiCaprio has long been attached, while the
former's story was told in the 1976 mini-series
Sybil, starring Sally Field.
For Shyamalan, however, the 1957 film The
Three Faces of Eve , starring Joanne Woodward
in an Oscar-winning performance, really spoke
to him. “I found it very moving," explains
Shyamalan. "I just find this psychological disorder
absolutely moving and tragic, and amazing
too. Especially the science of it. Pretty much
everything I do in the movie, with one exception,
is true.
“DID is a disorder that only happens to
individuals who were consistently sexually or
physically abused between the ages of one and
five years old, which is when the brain is still
developing and the brain actually starts different
synapses, and starts a different area, and goes
‘We can’t deal with the fact that our uncle or
mother, or whatever it is, is doing this, so we’re
going to create a whole other existence’.
"And then once it learns to do that during those
years, it does it forever; it keeps on splintering
over the course of time, so that these different
personalities all become options for them.”
Split is in cinemas now.
Felicity Jones drew critical praise for her performance in The Theory
of Everything. Now she's getting ready to embark upon the role of
a lifetime in a galaxy far, far away… Words Jake Taylor
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The filmmaker who introduced the notion of seeing dead
people in The Sixth Sense explores Dissociative Identity
Disorder in Split, with James McAvoy exhibiting 24
different personalities. Words Gill Pringle
Founder Nic Short Editor-In-Chief Paul Jones Editor John Ferguson
Creative Director Karl Lock DVD Consultant Jason Hewitt
Games Consultant Sachi Fernando Production Manager Craig Patterson
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Contributors Graham Reid, Scott Hocking, Judy Ewens, GarethThompson,Tim Mackrell,
Zoë Radas, Gill Pringle, Alesha Kolbe, Amy Flower, Ryan Huff, Simon Lukic, Michael
Dwyer, Chris Murray, Denise Hylands, Simon Winkler, Adam Colby, Savannah Douglas
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