--- title: "6 Disorder Quotes By Richard P. Kluft" description: "6 Disorder quotes by Richard P. Kluft. Plus more from Richard P. Kluft and more Disorder sayings from other authors." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41f/richard-p-kluft-44450_books_clinical-literature-is-virtually-unanimo_296516.jpg" --- > [ “clinical literature is virtually unanimous that full MPD \[Multiple Personality Disorder\] cannot be created iatrogenically. There is no evidence that such a… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/clinical-literature-is-virtually-unanimous-that-full-mpd-multiple/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41f/richard-p-kluft-44450_books_clinical-literature-is-virtually-unanimo_296516.jpg) > [“It appears that the picture of DID as the ongoing clash of polarized personality types (e.g., good girl-bad girl, upright citizen-sociopath) is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/it-appears-that-the-picture-of-did-as-the-ongoing-clash-of-polarized/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5a5/richard-p-kluft-44450_alter-personalities_it-appears-that-the-picture-of-did-as-th_302977.jpg) > [ “Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed \[with Dissociative Identity Disorder\] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/interestingly-the-patients-who-presented-to-me-self-diagnosed-with/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0cc/richard-p-kluft-44450_capricious_interestingly-the-patients-who-presented_680376.jpg) > [“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/the-implication-that-the-change-in-nomenclature-from-multiple/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/565/richard-p-kluft-44450_behind-the-scenes_the-implication-that-the-change-in-nomen_1066359.jpg) > [“Several recent studies (Bliss, 1980; Boon & Draijer, 1993a; Coons & Milstein, 1986; Coons, Bowman, & Milstein, 1988; Putnam et al., 1986;…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/several-recent-studies-bliss-1980-boon-draijer-1993a-coons-milstein/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d8e/richard-p-kluft-44450_alter-personalities_several-recent-studies-bliss-1980-boon-d_2008611.jpg) > [“The classic host personality, which usually (over 50% of the time) presents for treatment, nearly always bears the legal name and is…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/the-classic-host-personality-which-usually-over-50-of-the-time/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b59/richard-p-kluft-44450_alter-personalities_the-classic-host-personality-which-usual_2556520.jpg) ## Other authors on Disorder ## More by Richard P. Kluft > [ “clinical literature is virtually unanimous that full MPD \[Multiple Personality Disorder\] cannot be created iatrogenically. There is no evidence that such a case has… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/clinical-literature-is-virtually-unanimous-that-full-mpd-multiple/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) > [“It appears that the picture of DID as the ongoing clash of polarized personality types (e.g., good girl-bad girl, upright citizen-sociopath) is hard to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/it-appears-that-the-picture-of-did-as-the-ongoing-clash-of-polarized/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) > [ “Interestingly, the patients who presented to me self-diagnosed \[with Dissociative Identity Disorder\] had tried to tell previous therapists of their plight, but had been… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/interestingly-the-patients-who-presented-to-me-self-diagnosed-with/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) > [“The implication that the change in nomenclature from “Multiple Personality Disorder” to “Dissociative Identity Disorder” means the condition has been repudiated and “dropped” from…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/the-implication-that-the-change-in-nomenclature-from-multiple/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) > [“The summary of Lambert and Lillenfelt’s “Bloodstains” in Scientific American Mind in the October 12, 2007 The Informed Reader passes along many of these…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/the-summary-of-lambert-and-lillenfelt-s-bloodstains-in-scientific/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) > [“Most DID patients are rather muted compared to those cases incorrectly assumed to epitomize the condition (Kluft, 1985b). The personalities enact adaptational patterns and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/most-did-patients-are-rather-muted-compared-to-those-cases/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) > [“The often dramatic differences among the personalities are more an arresting epiphenomenon than the core of the condition. Characterological factors, cultural influences, imagination, intelligence,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/the-often-dramatic-differences-among-the-personalities-are-more-an/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) > [“Several recent studies (Bliss, 1980; Boon & Draijer, 1993a; Coons & Milstein, 1986; Coons, Bowman, & Milstein, 1988; Putnam et al., 1986; Ross et…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/several-recent-studies-bliss-1980-boon-draijer-1993a-coons-milstein/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) > [“The classic host personality, which usually (over 50% of the time) presents for treatment, nearly always bears the legal name and is depressed, anxious,…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/richard-p-kluft/the-classic-host-personality-which-usually-over-50-of-the-time/) [Richard P. Kluft](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/richard-p-kluft/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/disorder/richard-p-kluft/#itemlist", "name": "6 Disorder Quotes By Richard P. Kluft", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "“clinical literature is virtually unanimous that full MPD [Multiple Personality Disorder] cannot be created iatrogenically. There is no evidence that such a case has been demonstrated; clinicians of widely different orientations have studied the available information and arrived at similar conclusions (e.g., Braun, 1984; Gruenewald, 1984; Kernberg, in press; Kluft, 1982; Putnam, 1989). Nonetheless, most of these observers have noted that many of the phenomena of MPD can be created quite readily, and that phenomena with striking superficial resemblance to MPD can be generated with relatively little effort. In fact, I noted in passing (Kluft, 1986a) that I had replicated the interventions of Harriman (1942,1943), Leavitt (1947), and Kampman (1976), and found the resultant phenomena clearly distinguishable from clinical MPD. (from Kluft, R. P. (1989). Dissociation: Vol. 2, No. 2, p. 083-091: Iatrongenic creation of new alter personalities)”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard P. 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I was part of the group that developed and wrote successive descriptions and diagnostic criteria for this condition for DSM-III-R, DSM–IV, and DSM-IV-TR. While some patients have been hurt by the impact of material that proves to be inaccurate, there is no evidence that scientifically demonstrates the prevalence of such events. Most material alleged to be false has been disputed by someone, but has not been proven false. Finally, however intriguing the idea of encouraging forgetting troubling material may seem, there is no evidence that it is either effective or safe as a general approach to treatment. There is considerable belief that when such material is put out of mind, it creates symptoms indirectly, from “behind the scenes.” Ironically, such efforts purport to cure some dissociative phenomena by encouraging others, such as Dissociative Amnesia.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard P. 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This is subject to a number of interpretations. It is likely that the complexity of the more difficult and demanding cases treated in such settings may be one aspect of what makes them require such specialized care. It is also possible that the staff of such centers is differentially sensitive to the need to probe for previously undiscovered complexity in their efforts to treat patients who have failed to improve elsewhere. However, it is also possible that patients unduly interested in their disorders and who generate factitious complexity enter such series differently, or that some factor in these units or in those who refer to them encourages such complexity or at least the subjective report thereof.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard P. 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While no personality types are invariably present, many are encountered quite frequently: childlike personalities (fearful. recalling traumata, or love-seeking), protectors, helpers-advisors, inner self-helpers (serene, rational, and objective helpers and advisors first described by Allison in 1974), personalities with distinct affective states, guardians of memories and secrets (and of family boundaries), memory traces (holding continuity of memory), inner persecutors (often based on identification with the aggressor), anesthetic personalities (created to block out pain), expressers of forbidden impulses (pleasurable and otherwise, such as defiant, aggressive, or antisocial), avengers (which express anger over abuses endured and may wish to redress their grievances), defenders or apologists for the abusers, those based on lost love objects and other introjections and identifications, specialized encapsulators of traumatic experiences and powerful affects, very specialized personalities, and those (often youthful) that preserve the idealized potential for happiness, growth, and the healthy expression of feelings (distorted by traumata) in others (Kluft, 1984b).”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Richard P. 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