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Published 9 years ago by Fooferhill with 0 Comments
by Fooferhill
9 years ago

Multiple Personality -- Is It Mental Disorder, Myth, or Metaphor?

Why does MPD keep making its periodic comebacks, despite not being a verifiable or clinically useful mental disorder? My best guess is that the labeling of 'alters' offers an appealing and dramatic metaphor, an idiom of distress.

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