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Personality disorders (PD) are a class of mental health conditions characterized by enduring maladaptive patterns of behavior, cognition, and inner experience, ...
Dissociative identity disorder; Other names: Multiple personality disorder Split personality disorder: Specialty: Psychiatry, clinical psychology: Symptoms: At least two distinct and relatively enduring personality states, [1] recurrent episodes of dissociative amnesia, [1] inexplicable intrusions into consciousness (e.g., voices, intrusive thoughts, impulses, trauma-related beliefs), [1] [2 ...
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).
Illustration of the triad. The dark triad is a psychological theory of personality, first published by Delroy L. Paulhus and Kevin M. Williams in 2002, [1] that describes three notably offensive, but non-pathological personality types: Machiavellianism, sub-clinical narcissism, and sub-clinical psychopathy.
Personality disorder not otherwise specified (PD-NOS) is a subclinical [a] diagnostic classification for some DSM-IV Axis II personality disorders not listed in DSM-IV. [1] The DSM-5 does not have a direct equivalent to PD-NOS. However, the DSM-5 other specified personality disorder and unspecified personality disorder are substantially ...
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.
The Dark Triad Dirty Dozen (DTDD) is a brief 12-question personality inventory test to assess the possible presence of the three subclinical dark triad traits: Machiavellianism, narcissism, and psychopathy. [1] The DTDD was developed to identify the dark triad traits among subclinical adult populations. It is a screening test. [2]
It is revealed that her father, Dr. Steven, was the one who sexually abused her, causing her to develop Dissociative Identity Disorder resulting in the creation of the alter Toni, and becomes a thing of her mother's detest. While living in Italy during her teenage years, she was once again assaulted by her father, leading to the creation of Alette.