Thus, major DID researchers almost invariably recognized the presence of
SP-like figures in their work and call it “persecutor personality”. More
recently, in their theory of “Structural dissociation of personality”, van der
Hart and others (van der Hart, et al. 2006) most succinctly discuss this type
of personality in their description of the “persecutory EP” among other part of
personality.
“As EPs they [persecutory EPs] claim they are abuser, and not the abused,
and have the affects and behaviors of a perpetrator to varying degrees. In this
sensei, these EPs often cannot distinguish internal reality from external
reality”.(p82.)
They say that “[persecutory parts, those EPs that have identified with
perpetrator(s), are almost invariably present in chronically traumatized
individuals”. They also depicted the above-mentioned master-mind nature,saying “EPs
are often unwilling to participate in therapy directly, and work ‘behind the
scences” to sabotage progress (…) (p.312)
