title: Notes on "multiple personality".
abstract: The similarity of the concepts, splitting and "multiple personality," has been generally overlooked. Both are originally present in all human beings, both have pathological connotations in clinical usage, but both may actually be observed in a wide variety of "normal" psychological phenomena. Some residues of each developmental phase are preserved in the depth of the mind. These remnants are the constituents of the multiple personality of human beings.
mesh_terms: D009105:Dissociative Identity Disorder / Q000523:psychology*; D006801:Humans; D010553:Personality Development; D011574:Psychoanalytic Theory; D011575:Psychoanalytic Therapy