is MPD or multiple personality disorder REAL?

Question

can it be possible for a person to have multiple personalities, if personality signifies the interiority of oneself and its ability to reflect about oneself?

reference: the human being and human person: jacques maritain's notion of the person in the contemporary setting

Answer 1

yes , its real, its most usually an extreme response to trauma, often childhood trauma
we all have various aspects of our personality, parts of it so to speak, our kind side, our angry side, the traits that kick in when we need to protect ourselves, we sometimes must push down certain traits or emotions, say our anger at work, if we have to do this long enough, it will come out someplace or time, yet as grown ups we often still feel in control, we can let that anger out if we choose, or we can leave the situation

trauma victims can withdraw from reality, or they can withdraw parts of them, often they must simply to survive, both physically and mentally, especially children, and also the "face" they do show society is not their total personality,
they cant allow theirselves to show anger, fear etc ,
so with this disorder, those emotions must go somewhere, and the where is a place that is separated from the other emotions , to the point of not remembering or realizing the others parts are even there
this subject sort of falls into the area of regained memory, some do not understand how a person can be walking around not remembering major events from their lives, but the brain simply could not handle it at the time, so those memories went to a place the person simply wasnt aware of.
so its not a long jump to see that parts of the personality could do the same, divide to the extent of not being aware of each other part
i suggest reading /researching about it, and also as mentioned, check out disassociate identity

Answer 2

Yep. Not as commonplace as some might have you believe, though. It's not really multiple personalities, in the sense of the scientific intent of the word personality. It's fragmented personality. The fragments are results of fissures and ruptures of the psyche from outside pressure.

Answer 3

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Answer 4

MPD is the old acronym; you want to be looking at DID for the most current information; dissociative identity disorder, if I am not completely mistaken. Hugs, Gina, Regi, Foo-Foo and Tom

Answer 5

The answer is yes.

Please refer to the following link for a more comprehensive and authoritative explanation regarding MPD: http://skepdic.com/mpd.html

Answer 6

One part of me says yes, one part of me says no, and the other part of does not give a ship.

Answer 7

No, and I'm a schizophrenic and so am I!

Answer 8

i used to think it was all crap

then i met this one chick.....