From the Renaissance to the controversial book Sybil and beyond, the existence of multiple personalities has been explored ...

A survivor of multiple personality disorder discusses the disease and the painful ... NEWSWEEK's Anne Underwood spoke with Karen Overhill—a former sufferer and the subject of a new book, ...

When the book was published in the 1970s, she was just riding the coattails of an earlier case of “split personality disorder” — one that made several careers. The film The Three Faces of ...

This blog post is a review of the book, The Unanswered Self: The Masterson Approach to the Healing of Personality Disorders, by Candace Orcutt, Ph.D. Psychiatrist and psychoanalyst James F ...

Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book Sybil. The book and subsequent film caused an enormous spike in reported cases of multiple personality disorder.

“Switching Time” is based on a real-life case of multiple personality disorder. The book chronicles Baer’s gripping account of treating a woman who created 17 different personalities in ...

Hers was the first well-documented case of multiple personality disorder. Fifty years later, physicians were still circulating Reynolds’s case history, in part because her condition was so exotic.

In a new book, a psychiatrist details his most challenging case, ... Multiple-Personality Disorder. Published Oct 20, 2007 at 12:08 PM EDT Updated Mar 13, 2010 at 5:46 PM EST.

Within a few years of its publication, reported cases of multiple personality disorder — now known as dissociative identity disorder — leapt from fewer than 100 to thousands.