The etiology of multiple personalities.
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.
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