© 2002 Lippincott Williams & Wilkins, Inc. Volume 190(10) October 2002 pp 707-710 DISSOCIATIVE IDENTITY DISORDER IN NORTHERN IRELAND: A SURVEY OF ATTITUDES AND EXPERIENCE AMONG CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS AND PSYCHIATRISTS [Brief Reports] Dorahy, Martin J. Ph.D. 1 ; Lewis, Christopher Alan D.Phil. 2 1 School of Psychology, The Queen’s University of Belfast, Northern Ireland; The Cannan Institute, Belmont Private Hospital, Brisbane, QLD, Australia. Send reprint requests to Dr. Dorahy, Clinical Psychology, School of Psychology, The Queen’s University of Belfast, BT9 5BP, Northern Ireland. 2 School of Psychology, University of Ulster at Magee College, Londonderry, Northern Ireland. The authors thank Profs. Harvey Irwin and Warwick Middleton, and Dr. Jeanie McIntee for their helpful comments on drafts of this manuscript. Outline  Methods  Participants  Materials and Procedures  Results  Discussion  References Graphics  Table 1  Table 2 In 1977, Larmore et al. (1977) noted that multiple personality disorder (now known as dissociative identity disorder [DID]) was a controversial psychiatric diagnosis. Since then, the world literature has grown rapidly. Nonetheless, with cases of DID being reported from most continents (e.g., Coons et al., 1991 ;Middelton and Butler, 1998 ;Sar et al., 1996 ) and studies containing large series of patients being published (e.g., Ross et al., 1989 ), the diagnosis is still contentious and controversial (Cohen et al., 1995 ), attracting temperate and reasoned argument and extreme positions (Dell, 1988a, 1988b ). Some studies of mental health professionals suggest lack of consensus regarding the existence of DID (e.g., Pope et al., 1999 ). Other studies have reported a general consensus in support of the condition (e.g., Cormier and Thelen, 1998 ;Somer, 2000 ). Page 1 of 6 Ovid: Dorahy: J Nerv Ment Dis, Volume 190(10).October 2002.707-710 07/09/2005 file://C:\Documents and Settings\chris\Desktop\jnmd_2002.htm