split personality?

Question

Psychological term. Dual personality.

Answer 1

Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one "alter" personality that controls behavior. The "alters" are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other. The unity of consciousness, by which we identify our selves, is said to be absent in MPD. Another symptom of MPD is significant amnesia which can't be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV replaced the designation of MPD with DID: dissociative identity disorder. The label may have changed, but the list of symptoms remained essentially the same.

Memory and other aspects of consciousness are said to be divided up among "alters" in the MPD. The number of "alters" identified by various therapists ranges from several to tens to hundreds. There are even some reports of several thousand identities dwelling in one person. There does not seem to be any consensus among therapists as to what an "alter" is. Yet, there is general agreement that the cause of MPD is repressed memories of childhood sexual abuse. The evidence for this claim has been challenged, however, and there are very few reported cases of MPD afflicting children.

Psychologist Nicholas P. Spanos argues that repressed memories of childhood abuse and multiple personality disorder are "rule-governed social constructions established, legitimated, and maintained through social interaction." In short, Spanos argues that most cases of MPD have been created by therapists with the cooperation of their patients and the rest of society. The experts have created both the disease and the cure. This does not mean that MPD does not exist, but that its origin and development are often, if not most often, explicable without the model of separate but permeable ego-states or "alters" arising out of the ashes of a destroyed "original self."

Answer 2

I'm not sure if you're asking what it is, or the symptoms, or what. It's not really a question. But it's now called Dissociative Identity Disorder, and there's plenty of info at the Sidran Foundation, online.
It's a lot more common that people tend to believe...and it's not the same as schizophrenia, which a lot of other people tend to believe.

Answer 3

Multiple personality disorder, a neurosis in which the personality becomes dissociated into two or more distinct parts each of which becomes dominant and controls behavior from time to time to the exclusion of the other parts

Answer 4

Not anymore. It's now called Dissociative Identity Disorder.

Answer 5

the one who react as if he is somebody in the state that whatever he tells in that state and after sometime he gets back normal he dont remember what he told before like " the medium (people) who will answer as if the soul of somebody enters their body and u can see people who are in some temples in india gave answers of some problems which they come across as if they get answers straight from god

Answer 6

There are more movies on the subject than the no. of persons with this disorder.
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Answer 7

no such thing as a split personality anymore, its dissociative personality disorder.

Answer 8

Well The best defination is%&$#)(*** hmmmm what
hey who are you lalkiran Who LAL KIRAN ,what am I doing here hmmmmmmmm
hey what's goin on

Answer 9

it is nothing but when man does not have any one to share his talk he makes fr. in him & tha person tries to do bad what he always wanted to do....

Answer 10

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Split_personality