His name is Roger*. He has a beautiful four-year-old daughter, a loving wife and a successful career in marketing. His name is Jonathan*, he has a beautiful four-year-old daughter, a loving wife and a successful career in marketing. His real name is Austin*, he is 37 years old and suffers from dissociative identity disorder. Diagnosed at 23, he clearly managed to keep it from holding him back. Seeing Austin walking down the street, buying a coffee, or even having a personal conversation, you would never know it. His alter-personalities tell strangers and acquaintances that they are Austin, that their voices are slightly different, and that they don't mind wearing Austin's clothes, even though Roger thinks they are boring. Austin is successfully working on this disorder and to an outsider you wouldn't even recognize him. Austin is just one example of millions of people living with dissociative identity disorder, a disorder that is often misrepresented. Novels, films, and the media have transformed personality disorder into a spectacle of false symptoms and misinterpreted treatments. I argue that dissociative identity disorders are common but treatable and not at all like the disorder portrayed in books and movies. In 1957, Dr. Corbett H. Thigpen wrote a nonfiction book about his case study of Eve White. For most people, it was their first taste of dissociative identity disorder, then known as multiple personality disorder. In The Three Faces of Eve, Thigpen describes in detail Eve's two alternating personalities, Eve Black and Jane. He discovers her personalities formed following the traumatic death of Eve's grandmother when she was six. The book on his case study was so successful that it was made into a film. Hollywood, however, took an interesting case middle of paper......d November 14, 2011, at http://www.npr.org/2011/10/20/141514464/real -sybil-admits that several -personalities-were-fakeWILSON, B. (nd). A patient with multiple personalities draws her 17 alter egos | Online mail. Online mail. Retrieved November 14, 2011 from http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-489655/Patient-multiple-personalities-sketches-17-alter-egos.htmlA History of Dissociative Identity Disorder. (nd). Catholic web specialized on possession and exorcism. Retrieved December 1, 2011 from http://www.fortea.us/english/psiquiatria/history.htmGray, H. (nd). Don't call me Sybil. Don't call me Sybil. Retrieved December 1, 2011 from http://dontcallmesybil.com/Swartz, A. (nd). Dissociative Identity Disorder in AllPsych Journal. Psychology class on AllPsych Online. Retrieved December 1, 2011 from http://allpsych.com/journal/did.html