title: Multiple personality. A single case study with a 15 year follow-up.
abstract: 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.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D000647:Amnesia / Q000209:etiology; D001766:Blindness / Q000209:etiology; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D003244:Consciousness Disorders / Q000209:etiology; D003291:Conversion Disorder / Q000209:etiology; D004213:Dissociative Disorders / Q000150:complications; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006212:Hallucinations / Q000209:etiology; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D010243:Paralysis / Q000209:etiology; D010554:Personality Disorders / Q000150:complications; D012054:Reinforcement, Psychology; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D012649:Self Concept; D013315:Stress, Psychological