title: Intoxication and sobriety. Implications for the understanding of multiple personality.
abstract: This speculative article compares the switch from drunkenness to sobriety with what transpires in the switch from one personality to another in multiple personality disorder. State-dependent learning is discussed as a particularly fruitful area of investigation into the understanding and interpretation of diverse manifestations of multiple personality disorders as well as alcoholism.
mesh_terms: D000435:Alcoholic Intoxication / Q000523:psychology; D000437:Alcoholism / Q000523:psychology*; D003071:Cognition; D003142:Communication; D003213:Conditioning, Psychological; D003243:Consciousness; D003463:Cues; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D007092:Imagination; D008297:Male; D009228:Mysticism; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D013695:Temperance