multiple personality disorder

English

Noun

multiple personality disorder (countable and uncountable, plural multiple personality disorders)

  1. (psychology, informal, dated) Dissociative identity disorder.
    Synonym: MPD
    • 2011 October 16, Kyle Smith, “‘Sybil’ is one big psych-out”, in New York Post‎:
      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.

Translations
dissociative identity disorder — see dissociative identity disorder
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