title: The etiology of multiple personalities.
abstract: This article reviews the four major categories of explanations into the etiology of multiple personality disorder including supernatural, physiologic, psychologic, and sociologic. From these categories and their subdivisions, a series of hypotheses was developed. A paradigmatic description of a typical case of multiple personality was then created from a synthesis of the findings of case history and interview analyses.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001007:Anxiety / Q000523:psychology; D002648:Child; D002649:Child Abuse; D003221:Confusion / Q000523:psychology; D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000209:etiology* / Q000523:psychology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007360:Intelligence; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010268:Parapsychology; D012069:Religion and Psychology; D012649:Self Concept; D012742:Sex Offenses; D013315:Stress, Psychological / Q000150:complications