The Osiris Complex: Case Studies in Multiple Personality.
A Case of Multiple Personality by Thigpen and Cleckley (1954) Aim To document a case of Multiple Personality Disorder Design Case Study Participant A 25 year old woman with Multiple Personality Disorder Procedure Information was collected from Eve White. This information included: interview material, psychometric tests and physiological tests.
Dissociative identity disorder, formerly called multiple personality disorder, mental disorder in which two or more independent and distinct personality systems develop in the same individual. Each of these personalities may alternately inhabit the person’s conscious awareness to the exclusion of the others.
Girl, Interrupted: A Study of borderline personality Disorder It s 1967, and 18 year old Susanna Kaysen is like a lot of American teenagers her age confused, insecure, and lost within a rapidly changing world. After a half-hearted suicide attempt, she goes to a psychiatrist who quickly diagnoses her with Borderline Personality Disorder, and whisks her away to McLean Hospital.
The Case of Paranoid Personality Disorder Phoenix is a 28 year old woman who is currently a full-time student and unemployed. She is in a domestic partnership and she has a son, which is not legally her partner’s. She stays at home most days and waits for her son to come home from school and her partner to come home from her job.
A case of multiple personality - Thigpen, C.H. and Cleckley, H. (1954) Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a strange condition in many ways. One of the rarest and most controversial of all psychological diagnoses, it is at the same time one of the most famous and widely known to the general public.
Dissociative Identity Disorder Analysis Dissociative Identity Disorder (D.I.D.) is a mental disorder which intrigues many psychologists today; the Disorder is also known to some as multiple personality disorder. Each case of DID is different since the disorder covers such a broad field. Each instance is a severe form of dissociation in the brain.
Q. Deeley, in Handbook of Clinical Neurology, 2016. Dissociative identity changes. In some forms of dissociative identity disorder and the similar phenomenon of “lucid possession” (Oesterreich, 1974), the subject is aware of the mental contents of an alternate personality or possessing agent but otherwise unable to control his or her speech or actions (Deeley et al., 2014).