Multiple Personality Disorder
Are there any different names for this besides Dissociative identity disorder?
I swear there was another name for it? Like one word... for some reason I keep thinking of doppleganger, but I know it isn't that either. We are in a Psychology unit at school, and there was some talk of this in our book. I've heard of this before, and I know there is a name for it. |
schizophrenia?
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Ahh thanks, that's it.
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Multiple Personality Disorder and schizophrenia are different things. MPD is the manifestation of several personalities - with different ages, gender, behaviour - in one person. Schizophrenia is a different perception of "reality" from the accepted norm.
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MPD seems similar to DID (Dissociative Identity Disorder) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissoci...ntity_disorder
This also might be helpful: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diagnos...ntal_Disorders http://dsmivtr.org/ http://dsm5.org/ I don't know if your psych unit has been introduced to the Novel titled 'Sybil' or the movie version, but I remember seeing that film in class. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sybil_%281976_film%29 And the ongoing stages of Sybil's mental deterioration, caused by a traumatic childhood. |
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