Inpatient treatment of multiple personality disorder.
Multiple personality disorder (MPD) was once thought to be rare, but there is increasing evidence that it is relatively common. In a period of a year the author had 73 inpatient admissions under his care, of which 8 were for MPD. Three of the MPD admissions were for previously undiagnosed cases in an unselected general adult population. Thus 4.4% of the author's inpatients, once MPD patients diagnosed prior to admission are excluded, had MPD. The implications of this finding are discussed. The diagnosis and inpatient treatment of MPD are reviewed.
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Department of Psychiatry, University of Manitoba.
D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000150:complications; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000150:complications / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011567:Psychiatric Department, Hospital; D012737:Sex Factors