MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER


Meaning of MULTIPLE PERSONALITY DISORDER in English

Function: noun

Date: 1901

: a hysterical neurosis in which the personality becomes dissociated into two or more distinct but complex and socially and behaviorally integrated parts each of which becomes dominant and controls behavior from time to time to the exclusion of the others ― called also multiple personality ― compare SCHIZOPHRENIA , SPLIT PERSONALITY

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