There was a documentary on telly here in Britain a while ago, called Being Pamela, about Pamela Edwards who has Dissociative Identity Disorder. If you know where it's available online please would you post the link to this comm? I watched it when it was broadcast. Here's
a newspaper article about it It horrified me that this lady's carers kept trying to eliminate her alters and to force her to call herself Pamela, the name she'd been given at birth. It looked to me as though the carers had become abusers.