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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 ...
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]
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).
In psychology and mental health, the host is the most prominent personality, state, or identity in someone who has dissociative identity disorder (DID) [1] (formerly known as multiple personality disorder). [1] The other personalities, besides the host, are known as alter personalities, or just "alters". [2]
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 ...
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.
Multiple personality may refer to Dissociative identity disorder , previously known as multiple personality disorder Multiplicity (subculture) , a subculture of people who identify with having multiple personalities
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 ...