Multiple personality disorder has been associated with marked psychophysiologic alterations ever since careful clinical observations have been made on this perplexing disorder. Physical symptoms known to be associated with ...

The diagnosis of multiple personality disorder (MPD) is fraught with difficulties leading to a frequent false negative diagnosis and an occasional false positive diagnosis. Proper diagnostic evaluation of a patient suspected ...

Although there have been eight descriptive studies on patients with psychogenic amnesia between 1935 and 1962, this is the first such study in thirty years. Using an extensive clinical history, mental status examination, ...

Although the literature contains numerous historical and contemporary case reports of possession disorder, the possession syndrome has never been an officially approved psychiatric diagnosis. This paper reviews these case ...

Of 112 consecutive admissions to a dissociative disorders clinic, 10% of patients with symptoms characteristic of MPD ultimately were discovered to have factitious disorder or were malingering. They were compared with 50 ...