Multiple Personality Disorder: A Fact or Fiction

Multiple personality disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) is one of the most amazing and unusual mental conditions known. It is the ultimate dissociative disorder, chronic in nature and without proper treatment may become a lifelong process, though it may manifest itself differently over the lifetime of an individual (Kluft, 1985).  The existence of apparently separate and autonomous alter personalities, exchanging control over an individual’s behaviour, elicits intense fascination in some and protests and disbelief form others.  The existence of these entities raises questions about fundamental assumptions of the unity of personality and the structure of consciousness. The wide variety of symptoms commonly found in MPD includes most of the types of symptoms found in all of the psychiatric disorders combined.  Thus, to find out what is MPD a fact or fiction we will discuss various aspects of MPD/DID in some detail.

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