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Multiple personality: A single case study with a 15 year follow-up

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  09 July 2009

Brian Cutler and
John Reed
Brian Cutler
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London
John Reed*
Affiliation:
Bethlem Royal and Maudsley Hospitals and St. Bartholomew's Hospital, London
*
1Address for correspondence and requests for reprints: John Reed, Department of Psychological Medicine, St. Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London, EC1A 7BE.
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Synopsis

A review of the literature relating to multiple personality is presented together with a study of a single case of hysterical aetiology that demonstrates the development of multiple personality from a fugue amnesic state. A re-examination of this case after 15 years without significant psychotherapeutic intervention demonstrates a tendency towards remission. The view that multiple personality is a form of fugue, not necessarily hysterical, in which an alternative personality is adopted and that this behaviour is reinforced by the attention that it receives, is discussed.

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Psychological Medicine , Volume 5 , Issue 1 , February 1975, pp. 18 - 26
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 1975

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