1) Difficulty being approached
and identified
One plausible
reason that SPs sometimes do not seem to have a distinct identity is that they
are not fully formed; in other words, they are not altogether “crystallized” or
“elaborated” (van der Hart et al, 2006) in their character formation. Often, they
appear in a trance-like or somnambulist state, or as a clouded consciousness lacking
the capacity to identify themselves or respond to particular questions asked by
clinicians. Another way of understanding this nature might be that in the
original scene of the aggression, the perpetrator tried to deny or obscure
his/her identity, either by denying his/her active involvement (“it didn’t
really happen”) r obscure his/her intention (“I never really meant it).sometimes
it is the very victim who refuses to identify the perpetrator’s identity (“it
was not my daddy who did it. Someone else that I don’t know did it.)
