Intoxication and sobriety. Implications for the understanding of multiple personality.
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.
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