Multiple Personality Disorder - conflicting views regarding the controversy of the disorder.

Multiple Personality Disorder Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD), also known today as Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), is a psychiatric disorder where two or more personalities seem inhabit a single body. The different personalities are referred to as "alters". At different times, the personalities alternate in their control of the person's actions and general conduct. (American Psychiatric Association, 1994) Dissociation is a mental process, which produces a lack of connection in a person's thoughts, feelings, actions, or sense …

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