Multiple Personality Disorder

More than two million cases can be found altogether in psychological and psychiatric records of multiple personality disorder also called dissociative identity disorder. It is often thought that multiple personality disorder is a trick, a bizarre form of "play-acting" that is committed by manipulative, attention-seeking individuals. It is not. Multiple personality disorder is a "disorder of hiding" wherein 80-90% of multiple personality disorder patients do not have a clue that they have the disorder. Most …showed first 75 words of 1242 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1242 total…it" or "I didn't think he had it in him." But most of us do not develop distinct separate personalities. Bibliography Ruth, Martin. Mental Disorders. Crowell Co., 1992. Cline, Jean. Silencing the Voices. Berkley, 1997 West, Cameron, PhD “Multiple Personality Disorder”. Encyclopedia Americana. 1992 Ed. Astraea. “Multiple Personality Resource and Controversy”. http://www.asarian.org/~astraea/household/ 2 February 2001 “ Shattered Selves”. Yahoo Geocities. Available http://www.geocities.com/HotSpring/8089/multi.html 26 February 2001 Daniel, Keyes. “The Minds of Billy Miligan”.