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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).
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.
Dorothy Otnow Lewis is an American psychiatrist and author who has been an expert witness at a number of high-profile cases.. She specializes in the study of violent individuals and people with dissociative identity disorder (DID), formerly known as multiple personality disorder.
In this article we will take a look at the 10 most famous personalities in the world. You can skip our detailed analysis of these well-known names and go directly to the 5 Most Famous ...
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.
The book by Thigpen and Cleckley was rushed into publication, and the film rights were immediately sold to director Nunnally Johnson in 1957, apparently to capitalize on public interest in multiple personalities following the publication of Shirley Jackson's 1954 novel The Bird's Nest, [9] which was also made into a film in 1957 titled Lizzie.
Throughout Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan, dozens of doctors express conflicting opinions on multiple personality or dissociative identity disorder.Some believe Milligan was an ...
Person Known for Degree Field Institution Chad Allen: Actor Psy.D. Clinical psychology: Antioch University New England [1] [2] Robert Allan Member of the band Glasvegas: PhD Music: Glasgow University [3] Milo Aukerman: Member of the band Descendents: PhD: Biology University of California, San Diego [4] Mayim Bialik: Actress PhD Neuroscience [5]