Meanings
plural multiple personality disorders
- countabledatedinformaluncountablehuman sciencesDissociative identity disorder.
Soon, “multiple personality disorder,” or MPD, became an officially recognized diagnosis, and a handful of cases exploded into 40,000 reported sufferers, nearly all of them female. The repressed-memory industry was born.
2011 October 16, Kyle Smith, “‘Sybil’ is one big psych-out”, in New York PostSynonyms: MPD
Synonyms & antonyms
nounDissociative identity disorder.
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