multiple personality disorder

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multiple personality disorder

noun multiple personality disorders

countable, dated, informal, uncountable Dissociative 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.
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@misc{multiple_personality_disorder_2026,
  title = {multiple personality disorder},
  howpublished = {Wiktionary, via Micwyn},
  year = {2026},
  url = {https://micwyn.com/word/multiple%20personality%20disorder},
  urldate = {2026-11-06}
}