Dissent In the Land of Dissociative Identity Disorder
TS-SI
By Joanne Proctor   
06 March, 2011


http://ts-si.org/guest-columns/28354-dissent-in-the-land-of-dissociative-identity-disorder


Case Study 1. James Carlson

Arizona Prison

James CarlsonIn 1994 James Carlson stood trial for rape in an Arizona court. Carlson claimed to possess multiple personalities. According to Carlson, eight of these were aware of the alleged crimes.

    "...Carlson, claimed to have 11 personalities, eight of which knew something about the crimes in question...the defence called each one as a witness, including [a] lesbian prostitute in the powder-pink sweater." [N1]


In the morning he took the witness stand as a man and in the afternoon as a woman in a powder-pink sweater, high heels and press-on nails in a[n] attempt to convince the jury that he had MPD. The defence team was convinced. The two psychiatrists that gave expert testimony to that effect, were convinced. Most importantly, he failed to convince the jury and Carlson was convicted. A few days later Carlson admitted he had made the whole thing up.

    "I'm a manipulator and a liar and I guess I'm good at it," he said. Carlson said he studied multiple personality disorder so he could fool the jury, his lawyer, and the therapists who testified in his defense. "I thought I could get into a mental hospital,"

The human mind is too precious to be placed in the hands and writing instruments of rhe Psychiatric community.  For the last 24 years with an ex spouse and a child (now adult) with sever Mental Health problems, I have gotten a guided tour of mental disorders, including the ones mentioned in this article.  After 30+ years of administrative law enforcemtn work, I have also had experience with the opportunists who would use the psychiatric windfalls to deny social responsibility because they think they are smarter than their fellow citizens who owe them honor for their conceit and deceit.  It is the fact that this second group will adopt Trans Gender charactistics to play their part of connivance that annoys me almost  beyond  my own limit of sanity.  It makes it harder for me to obtain respect and understanding each time a bogus claim is made for excuse of criminal or anti social behavior.  True mental health situations do abound in the Transgender population, but our transgender feelings are NOT the ones that should be judged most pointedly by society.