Multiple personality in the human information-processor: a case history and theoretical formulation.
A case of multiple personality is presented, which details the roles of the "executive" and "destabilizer" personalities in the functioning of the overall system, and in treatment. A neo-associationist model of personality, affect and cognition, previously presented by the author (Andorfer, 1980) and applied to schizophrenia (Andorfer, 1984), is here extended to multiple personality. This model is used to account for the mechanisms and clinical phenomena of dissociation and reintegration and the role of the "executive" personality in each. Strategies for treatment are recommended.
D000223:Adaptation, Psychological; D000328:Adult; D001883:Borderline Personality Disorder / Q000523:psychology; D002649:Child Abuse; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000523:psychology* / Q000628:therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008016:Life Change Events; D010553:Personality Development; D011369:Professional-Patient Relations; D011613:Psychotherapy / Q000379:methods