Multiple Personality Disorder and False Memory Syndrome

[Sexual abuse, recovered memory and multiple personality disorder].

Memory and awareness in a patient with multiple personality disorder.

We studied an individual with multiple personality disorder in whom each of several personalities claimed to have no direct awareness of the others and to be unable to consciously remember the experiences of other personalities. A broad selection of implicit and explicit memory tests was used to determine the extent to which one personality had access to knowledge acquired by another and the ci...

Autobiographical memory in a case of multiple personality disorder.

Previous research on multiple personality disorder (MPD) has been concerned with between-personalities amnesia, and little attention has been paid to within-personality memory function. This study examined the autobiographical memory of a multiple personality patient, I.C., with cueing procedures that have proven useful in previous studies of normal and abnormal memory. Results indicated that I...

Multiple personality disorder.

DEARSIRS In the Psychiatric Bulletin (September 1989,13, 513), Dr Lai Fernando discussed his dearth of multiple personality disorder (MPD) patients in various countries including Canada. He also knew of no other colleagues with such cases. However, many of his Canadian colleagues are treating MPD patients as well as doing research. My own initial cases date from 1977 when I was working in Germa...

Multiple personality disorder: an overview.

Multiple personality disorder is understood today as chronic dissociative psychopathology that most often develops in response to severe abuse in childhood. The dissociative component is a manifestation of a defense mechanism out of control. The person with a biopsychological capacity to dissociate flees inward from overwhelming abuse or feared abuse. When continuing abuse perpetuates dissociat...