Manufacture of multiple personality disorder
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The manufacture of personalities. The production of multiple personality disorder.
Unprecedented numbers of cases of MPD have been diagnosed, mainly in North America, since 1957. Widespread publicity for the concept makes it uncertain whether any case can now arise without being promoted by suggestion or prior preparation. In order to determine if there is any evidence that MPD was ever a spontaneous phenomenon, a series of cases of MPD from the earlier literature has been ex...
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عنوان ژورنال: British Journal of Psychiatry
سال: 1992
ISSN: 0007-1250,1472-1465
DOI: 10.1192/s0007125000139133