Editing Dissociative identity disorder (section)

=== Treatment under the sociogenic model ===
Proponents of the sociogenic model dispute that dissociative identity disorder is an organic response to trauma, but believe it is a socially constructed behavior and psychic contagion. [[Paul R. McHugh]] says that the disorder is "sustained in large part by the attention that doctors tend to pay to it. This means that it is not a mental condition that derives from nature, such as panic anxiety or major depression. It exists in the world as an artificial product of human devising". McHugh believed that proponents of dissociative identity disorder inadvertently worsen patient condition by validating the behavior and providing attention.<ref>{{Cite book |last=McHugh |first=Paul R. |url=https://www.worldcat.org/title/225875945 |title=Try to remember: psychiatry's clash over meaning, memory, and mind |date=2008 |publisher=Dana Press |isbn=978-1-932594-39-3 |location=New York |pages=60, 84 |oclc=225875945}}</ref>

According to McHugh, at [[Johns Hopkins Hospital]] doctors should ignore the displays from "alters", and instead focus on treatment for other psychiatric problems patients present with. This method of treatment is reportedly successful:{{Sfn|McHugh|2008|p=134}}

{{Quote|text=What surprises many people is that multiple personalities tend to fall away quickly when ignored. Usually on our anorexia nervosa floor, patients who entered with MPD [multiple personality disorder] cease discussing their alters within a few days and often report that after a week or two of recovering their body weight and attending group therapy tied to their eating disorder, the ideas and preoccupations with their “alters” gradually vanished from their thinking.}}

According to a 2014 review, such views are based on anecdotal or non-peer-reviewed findings. In controlled studies, non-specialised treatment that did not address dissociative self-states did not substantially improve DID symptoms, though there may be improvement in patients' other conditions.<ref name="Brand2014" />