multiple personality
One body, many
Multiple personality refers to a psychological condition in which a person appears to have two or more distinct identities or personality states, each with its own patterns of perceiving and relating to the world.
The clinical term shifted from multiple personality disorder to dissociative identity disorder in the 1990s.
The concept captured popular imagination through cases like Sybil and films depicting dramatic personality switches: The character's multiple personality emerged under stress.
dissociative identity disorder
Psychiatric condition with alternate identities
- altersMakes something different
- switchingChanging from one to another
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
- multiplicityState of being many
system · host · protector · persecutor · little · gatekeeper · inner world · memory gaps
Unclear sense of self
- lost timeDuration spent unproductively
- depersonalizationDetachment from one's identity
- derealizationPerception that surroundings aren't real
- flashbackInvoluntary past memory
trigger · grounding · coping · survivor · lived experience · healing · integration · acceptance
Female prophet of antiquity
- Jekyll and HydeDual-natured person archetype
- fictionImagined narrative work
- filmMovie or coating
- stereotypeFixed oversimplified notion
media portrayal · sensationalism · misconception · dramatization · thriller · villain · plot device · public perception
Identification of illness
- psychiatryMental health medicine
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- DSMPsychiatric classification manual
- traumaLasting psychological wound
dissociation · therapy · treatment · assessment · misdiagnosis · comorbidity · differential diagnosis · clinician
dissociative identity disorder
Psychiatric condition with alternate identities
- altersMakes something different
- switchingChanging from one to another
- fragmentationBreaking into smaller pieces
multiplicity · system · host · protector · persecutor · little · gatekeeper · inner world · memory gaps · amnesia
identity confusion
Unclear sense of self
- lost timeDuration spent unproductively
- depersonalizationDetachment from one's identity
- derealizationPerception that surroundings aren't real
flashback · trigger · grounding · coping · survivor · lived experience · healing · integration · acceptance · communication
Sybil
Female prophet of antiquity
- Jekyll and HydeDual-natured person archetype
- fictionImagined narrative work
- filmMovie or coating
stereotype · media portrayal · sensationalism · misconception · dramatization · thriller · villain · plot device · public perception · Hollywood
diagnosis
Identification of illness
- psychiatryMental health medicine
- psychologyStudy of mind, behavior
- DSMPsychiatric classification manual
trauma · dissociation · therapy · treatment · assessment · misdiagnosis · comorbidity · differential diagnosis · clinician · patient
- mind tropesmad scientist, mental breakdown, mind control, nervous breakdown, padded cell
- pseudosciencehomeopathy, astrology, phrenology, numerology, palmistry
- psychepsyche, soul, mind, ego, id
- Psych JokesFreudian slip, defense mechanism, free association, slip of the tongue, psychobabble
- Disputed Diagnoseschronic fatigue, fibromyalgia, adrenal fatigue, Gulf War syndrome, sick building syndrome
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