Psychotic disorders. Dissociative identity disorder may be confused with schizophre-
nia or other psychotic disorders. The personified, internally communicative inner voices
of dissociative identity di sorder, especially of a child (e.g., “I hear a little girl crying in a
closet and an angry man yelling at her”), may be mistaken for psychotic hallucinations.
Dissociative experiences of identity fragmentat ion or possession, and of perceived loss of