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Dissociative identity disorder [1] [2]; Other names: Multiple personality disorder Split personality disorder: Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: At least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states, [3] recurrent episodes of dissociative amnesia, [3] inexplicable intrusions into consciousness (e.g., voices, intrusive thoughts, impulses, trauma-related beliefs ...
Shirley Ardell Mason (January 25, 1923 – February 26, 1998) was an American art teacher [1] who was reported to have dissociative identity disorder (previously known as multiple personality disorder).
Multiplicity, also called plurality or polypsychism, is an online subculture of people identifying as having or using multiple personalities, [1] [2] [3] or as having multiple people occupying one mind and body. Multiplicity communities mostly exist online through social media platforms. [3]
Sizemore was born Christine Costner on April 4, 1927, to Asa "Acie" Costner and Eunice Zueline Hastings in Edgefield, South Carolina. [1]In accordance with then-current modes of thought on the disorder, Thigpen reported that Sizemore had developed multiple personalities as a result of her witnessing two deaths and a horrifying accident within three months as a small child.
The other personalities, besides the host, are known as alter personalities, or just "alters". [2] The host may or may not be the original personality, which is the personality a person is born with. [1] [2] Additionally, the host may or may not be the personality that coincides with the official legal name of the person. [2]
Stacking dolls provide a visual representation of subpersonalities.. A subpersonality is, in humanistic psychology, transpersonal psychology and ego psychology, a personality mode that activates (appears on a temporary basis) to allow a person to cope with certain types of psychosocial situations. [1]
Sybil is a 1973 book by Flora Rheta Schreiber about the treatment of Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason) for dissociative identity disorder (then referred to as multiple personality disorder) by her psychoanalyst, Cornelia B. Wilbur. The book was made into two television movies of the same name, once in 1976 and again in 2007 ...
His lawyers pleaded insanity, claiming that two of his alternate personalities committed the crimes without Milligan being aware of it. He was the first person diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder to raise such a defense, [1] and the first acquitted of a major crime for this reason, instead spending a decade in psychiatric hospitals.