Dissociative identity disorder is described or portrayed in various memoirs and films, such as the popular 1999 film Fight Club. According to the sociocognitive model of this disorder, such media portrayals can help create expectations in both patients and therapists about how people with the disorder behave. Therapists, in turn, unintentionally reinforce patients for behaving in ways consistent with such portrayals.
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