Psychologist Toby Watson—Psychiatry is Misleading the Public About Mental Disorders

Well, hearing phenomena should not occur in a deaf person and I think it's impossible for our visual pathways to connect to a region of our brain to give a perception of hearing either. Visual cortex would give us a perception of seeing only.

Further to the following interesting facts,

• Just like voices, Interest in Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) started in Europe during the late 1800’s”
  
  
• "Since the 19th century the number of identities has gone from 2 or 3 to greater than 20, sometimes reaching 100.” - Interesting now what’s happening to our mind ? Number of identities are getting increased… - http://www.personalityresearch.org/papers/cherry2.html
  
  
• "19th century saw a number of reported cases of multiple personalities which Rieber estimated would be close to 100.” This is the total number of reported cases. - http://neuroclusterbrain.com/multiple_personality_disorder_history.html
  
  
• “There were 200 reported cases of DID as of 1980, and 20,000 from 1980 to 1990. Joan Acocella reports that 40,000 cases were diagnosed from 1985 to 1995" - Only 200 number of total reported cases of MPD/DID as of 1980. - http://neuroclusterbrain.com/multiple_personality_disorder_history.html

I also found out recently that these personalities are able to speak languages that the host person has never learnt. Following are comments made by them. All these abnormal abilities are coming to the surface after 17th century.

My question is if doctors/scientists truely believe that MPD/DID is due to any type of trauma as they believe, are we going to believe that people have never faced traumatic experiences prior to 17th century and that's why these were no cases of MPD prior to this period?

http://www.psychforums.com/dissociative-identity/topic54852.html(There are no identifiable personal information on these links)

"This is a question concerning a friend of mine, who is also multiple. One of her alters can speak Russian, a language she doesn't know and never has even tried to learn. When asked how he knows it, he just says that he does, he doesn't know how. Is this actually possible? How is it possible?"

"Yep, totally possible and not entirely uncommon. We have a few here who speak languages I only know a word or so of or ones which I do not speak fluently but they do. One of our kids is mute. We took American Sign Language in school for four years, but I don't remember it nearly as well as I should. He can quickly and easily feed me a sign when I'm with a friend who is deaf. And living in FL, Phoebe whose native language is Spanish, comes in real handy. We also have one whose native language is French (and I can say a few curse words and ask for a croissant, but that's it), one whose native language is Dutch (I used to be able to ask where the cafe is, but all I know anymore is thank you), one whose is Greek (I know not a word of it) and one whose is Italian which I can understand to some extent but not a whole lot- I guess because it sounds similar to Spanish and Spanish is the only one besides English or ASL I know at least more than one sentence of. I keep waiting to hear someone babbling away in Arabic or something.

I don't know how it's possible, aside from just saying that different people might speak different languages in the outside world, so it makes sense (to me, anyhow) that people in a multiple system could as well."