multiple personality disorder

noun

multiple personality disorder

noun

1

Human sciences, Psychology, Sciences Dated, Informal Dissociative identity disorder.

Soon, “multiple personality disorder,” or MPD, became an officially recognized diagnosis, and a handful of cases exploded into 40,000 reported sufferers, nearly all of them female. The repressed-memory industry was born.2011 October 16, Kyle Smith, “‘Sybil’ is one big psych-out”, in New York Post:

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