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Multiple personality   /mˈəltəpəl pˌərsənˈælɪti/   Listen
Multiple personality

noun
1.
A relatively rare dissociative disorder in which the usual integrity of the personality breaks down and two or more independent personalities emerge.  Synonym: split personality.






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... peoples, believed in the existence of evil spirits or demons, to whose malignant agency they ascribed various diseases, both functional and organic, and in particular those unhappy cases of obsession, fixed idea, and multiple personality, which we should now class under the general head of insanity, and treat in asylums for the mentally deranged. The New Testament writings are full of this point of view, which is of course largely ...
— Religious Reality • A.E.J. Rawlinson



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