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Multiple personality disorder (MPD), which has been described elsewhere (Coons, Bowman, & Milstein, 1988; Kluft, 1991b; Putnam, 1989; Putnam, Guroff, Silberman, Barban, & Post, 1986; Ross, 1989), is a polysymptomatic disorder which most often presents in women who report histories of long-standing and severe physical and sexual abuse beginning in early childhood. Depression most commonly overlies the more subtle dissociative symptomatology. Loewenstein (1991a) best articulated the polysymptomatic nature of MPD by dividing the syndrome into symptom clusters, including process, amnesic, autohypnotic, posttraumatic, somatoform, and affective symptoms. The dissociative symptoms will be described first, even though they are more subtle and have prompted one expert to call for a radical change in the way MPD is diagnosed (Nakdimen, 1992).
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Coons, P.M. (1994). Multiple Personality Disorder. In: Hersen, M., Ammerman, R.T. (eds) Handbook of Prescriptive Treatments for Adults. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-1456-9_15
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