multiple personality disorder

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Definition of multiple personality disorder in English English dictionary

A dissociative identity disorder

or dissociative identity disorder Rare condition in which two or more independent and distinct personality systems develop in the same individual. Each personality may alternately inhabit the person's conscious awareness to the exclusion of the others, but one is usually dominant. The various personalities typically differ from one another in outlook, temperament, and body language and give themselves different first names. The condition is generally viewed as resulting from dissociative mental processes that is, the splitting off from conscious awareness and control of thoughts, feelings, memories, and other mental components in response to situations that are painful, disturbing, or somehow unacceptable to the person experiencing them. Treatment is aimed at integrating the disparate personalities back into a single and unified personality

MPD

Related Terms

multiple personality disorders

plural form of multiple personality disorder

Hyphenation

mul·ti·ple per·son·al·i·ty dis·or·der

Turkish pronunciation

mʌltıpıl pırsınälîti dîsôrdır

Pronunciation

/ˈməltəpəl ˌpərsəˈnalətē dəsˈôrdər/ /ˈmʌltəpəl ˌpɜrsəˈnælɪtiː dɪsˈɔːrdɜr/