The woman who had 48 personalities

• Autores: Rosie Waterhouse
• Localización: New scientist, ISSN 0262-4079, Nº. 2936, 2013, págs. 46-49
• Idioma: inglés
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• Resumen

  • Over time the nature of multiple personality disorder (MPD) became more and more bizarre. The number of personalities harbored by each patient grew, from an average of two per person, hovering for a while at 16--Sybil's tally--then swelling to 100 or more. These could include personalities of the opposite sex, animals--in one case a lobster. Right from the beginning there were doubts raised about the validity of MPD. For a start, this condition was entwined with another highly contentious idea--the theory that we can repress memories of traumatic events, which would emerge during therapy. Here, Waterhouse argues the dubious diagnosis of multiple personality disorder.