ここからは英文に直していく作業である。
This article has a purpose of presenting a hypothesis regarding the way personalities are formed in patients with DID, from a standpoint of mirror neuron. Writing of this paper is motivated by this author’s concern that there is still a big ambiguity about the meaning of PPs in dissociative disorders. The key feature of DID is the existence of multiple personalities (DSM-5). However, it is counter-intuitive for us to believe that one has multiple personalities. As I will state later, our sense of self in each individual is sustained by its being unitary and indivisible. Therefore, there is ample reason that clinicians, let alone general public, have difficulty understanding the meaning of the multiplicity of personalities in the individual. The fact that there is little neurological explanation provided so far might have been worsening this situation.
Is sense of self disturbed in
“distinct personality states”?
Historically, DID is conceptualized as a state of identity described as follows: Disruption of identity characterized by the presence of two or more distinct personality states (dissociative identities), involving marked discontinuities in the sense of self and agency (ICD-11, draft, as of 2020, World Health Organization.
