Multiple personality disorder, along with the new psychiatric diagnois of hysteria, was an up-and-coming diagnosis in the late nineteenth century at the birth of modern psychology, the period in which the novel takes place.
It is a clear case of
multiple personality disorder.
Alice Jamieson, author of Today I'm Alice, has been diagnosed with
multiple personality disorderQ: In The United States of Tara, Tara suffers from a condition formerly known as
multiple personality disorder. Do any of her personalities have lesbian tendencies?
Taheri-Azar's sisters last year told The News & Observer of Raleigh, North Carolina, their brother is mentally unstable and had showed signs of
multiple personality disorder. Public Defender James Williams said his client "has a severe mental illness."
In handing down the ruling, Yasuhiro Akiba, the presiding judge at the Tokyo District Court, said the defendant, Ippei Oshima, ''suffers from
multiple personality disorder but can be held fully responsible for his deeds.''
For the past 35 years diagnoses of DID, previously referred to as
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), have increased exponentially, causing various psychological researchers and clinicians to question the validity of this disorder.
A FRACTURED MIND: MY LIFE WITH
MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER. Robert B.
The use of diagnoses of Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) (formerly known as
multiple personality disorder) tends to be particularly controversial in the legal system.
``Set This House in Order: A Romance of Souls'' (HarperCollins), a novel about a man with
multiple personality disorder, by Matt Ruff of Seattle.
Forty percent of reactive adolescents have
multiple personality disorder according to Dodge, et al.