Bennett G. Braun

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Bennett G. Braun (August 7, 1940 – March 20, 2024) was an American psychiatrist known for authoring the DSM3-R definition of multiple personality disorder (now called "dissociative identity disorder") and involvement in promoting the "Satanic Panic", a moral panic around a discredited conspiracy theory that led to thousands of people being wrongfully medically treated or investigated for nonexistent crimes. Braun was a co-founder of the International Society for the Study of Trauma and Dissociation and founded the Dissociative Disorders Program at the Rush-Presbyterian-St. Luke's Medical Center. Widely accepted as an expert in his field, he was a member of the DSM-III-R advisory committee on dissociative disorders. In addition, in the 1980s Braun claimed that multiple personality disorder patients can exhibit significantly different health conditions unique to each distinct personality, such as patients requiring several different eyeglasses prescriptions for each personality, or one personality having a disease such as lazy eye, hypertension, color blindness or diabetes which is absent from another, and argued that "[i]f the mind can do this in tearing down body tissue, I think it suggests the same potential for healing."