Dissociative Identity Disorder in the Courtroom: A Guide to Forensic Testimony

Author: Naira MatevosyanPublisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing PlatformPaperback:ISBN 10: 1494909979ISBN 13: 978-1494909970Dissociative identity disorder (DID) is a rare disease for what general practitioners have “no code.” It however has a heavy weight in forensic research. Experts are divided on whether DID warrants an acquittal for "not-guilty-by-reason-of-insanity" (NGRI) or 'guilty except mentally ill" (GEMI) defenses. Over the past century, the DID has been claimed to defend a variety of offenses, from a parking ticket to the first degree murder, or to manipulate with the civil suits for monetary relief. Applying traditional rules of criminal culpability or civil liability to these cases poses a significant challenge. The concepts of personhood and identity create a havoc in determining the insanity. Diagnostic exclusions are scarce, with exceptions of the explicit memory transfer to be the key to deny the dissociated identity, whereas the absence of implicit memory trans