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Multiply Personality Disorder

Multiple Personality Disorder ,MPD, is an illness that is little

understood by the public but still remains to be very difficult and trying to

the people that fall at its mercy everyday. In the 1950s, a book

introducing the World to Multiple Personality Disorder was released, The

Three Faces of Eve. This was the first time the public had ever been

exposed to this sickness (Clark 15). People with this disorder are said to

be inhabited by many different personalities. Each of these personalities

can become the center of the person’s consciousness (Kluft and Fine 87).

This should be a great concern to people because it effects more and more

of the human race.

The most common cause of MPD is said to start between the ages

of two or three in kids that have been physically, mentally, and or,

sexually abused. At this age, the child is to small to fight back at their

adversary, therefore, they create a safe harbor in their minds wh...

Posted by: Janet Valerio

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