Trouble dissociatif de l’identité de l’adolescent : de l’autodiagnostic à la maladie transitoire

Dissociative identity disorder in adolescents: From self-diagnosis to transient illness

¹ Service psychopathologie du développement de l’enfant et de l’adolescent, Hospices civils de Lyon F-69000 Lyon, France
² Institut des sciences cognitives Marc Jeannerod, UMR 5229 CNRS & université Claude Bernard Lyon 1, F-69000 Lyon, France

^* christophe.gauld@chu-lyon.fr

Abstract

The category of dissociative identity disorder (DID) has puzzled medical science and fascinated popular culture for almost 200 years. Its occurrence in young people raises at least two new questions addressed by science studies and embedded philosophy: self-diagnosis (related to cyberchondria and mass media-induced illness) and transient disease (related to looping effect and identity claim specific to adolescence). In an attempt to refine the sociocognitive model, we analyze the impact of these notions in understanding the local ecological niche in which contemporary adolescent DID occurs.