Multiple personality disorder: witchcraft survives in the twentieth century.

From: Skeptical Inquirer | Date: May 1, 1998| Author: Piper, August, Jr. | Copyright information

Multiple personality disorder (MPD), a psychiatric, dissociative disease, is believed to afflict at least a tenth of the US population. Also known as a dissociative identity disorder, MPD is characterized by memory failures that occur when patients are taken over by 'alter personalities.' These alters, which are formed from one's childhood experiences, impose their own memories, thoughts and behaviors on adult patients. However, aside from the absence of a proper definition of an alter person...

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