A symptom profile of patients with multiple personalities, including MMPI results.

Abstract

Patients with multiple personalities are excellent hypnotic subjects, a capability demonstrated both clinically and on a standard hypnotizability test. They tend to experience a plethora of symptoms associated with anxiety states, hysteria, obsessional neuroses, phobic states, depression and mania, schizophrenia, alcoholism, sociopathy, and hyperactivity--although there are exceptions to this profile. Both males and females suffer from this disability, and an MMPI profile for female multiples is described.

• Authors: E L Bliss
• Journal: The Journal of nervous and mental disease (J Nerv Ment Dis) Vol. 172 Issue 4 Pg. 197-202 (Apr 1984) ISSN: 0022-3018 [Print] United States
• PMID: 6707617 (Publication Type: Journal Article)

Topics

• Adult
• Alcoholism (psychology)
• Antisocial Personality Disorder (psychology)
• Anxiety Disorders (psychology)
• Attention Deficit Disorder with Hyperactivity (psychology)
• Bipolar Disorder (psychology)
• Depressive Disorder (psychology)
• Dissociative Identity Disorder (diagnosis, psychology)
• Female
• Humans
• Hypnosis
• Hysteria (psychology)
• MMPI
• Male
• Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (psychology)
• Personality Tests
• Phobic Disorders (psychology)
• Schizophrenic Psychology
• Sex Factors