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It was not until 2020 that the first symposium in France entirely devoted to dissociative identity disorder (DID), under the aegis of the AFTD, was organized. Was this a “return of the repressed” in French psychiatry or a paradigm shift allowing us to turn the page on “epidemic religious monomania”? While the controversies surrounding DID are innumerable, so many still see it as a fiction, and the number of publications that reference it is becoming increasingly thin. On the other hand, every year, medical imaging research confirms the importance of this pathology’s nosographic classification and stigmata a little more. But how can we differentiate knowledge of a psychopathology inherited from extreme violence during childhood from other representations inherited from a suspicion regarding the recognition of their existence?