Wednesday, January 26, 2011
Dissociative Identity Disorder: What About Multiple Personalities?
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), formerly known as Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Split Personality, is a challenge to even the most experienced clinician. Patients often experience confusion, fear, suspicion, anger, helplessness, and a myriad of other feelings. Proper diagnosis is often difficult, but the greatest difficulties come in the treatment phase. The movies “Three Faces of Eve” (1957) and “Sybil” (1973) introduced the general population to the
