Multiple Personality (Dissociative Identity Disorder)

Updated 01/13/2006

A History of the Study of MPD/DID source: Nancy Burnett. Good up to modern times but takes Sybil case as definitive and fails to note recent evidence it was iatrogenic (therapist-induced)
A Patient with Dissociative Identity Disorder 'Switches' in the Emergency Room
Multiple Personality Disorder & Dissociative Identity Disorder: ALL SIDES TO THE DEBATE Actually leans toward the credulous view, but presents alternatives
Multiple Personality Disorder (Dissociative Identity Disorder) by Paul R. McHugh. Prominent Professor of Psychiatry describes how this formerly very rare syndrome came to be common through the direct encouragement of therapists
Multiple Personality Disorder [Dissociative Identity Disorder] The skeptical view from The Skeptic's Dictionary
Reasons for Caution about Diagnosis of MPD/DID By Russ Dewey, host of Psych Web. Why most of the MPD sites do not appear on Psych Web's page of links
Was Sybil's Story for Real?

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