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Multiple Personalities
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One of the most remarkable cases published in France is that of Louis Vivet, studied from 1882 to 1889 by many authors, by Legrand du Saulle, Voisin, Mabille and Ramadier, Bourru and Burot. This boy has six different existences. Each of them is characterized, first, by modifications of the memory affecting now one period, now another; secondly, by modifications of character; in one state he is gentle and industrious, in another he is lazy and irascible; thirdly, by modifications of sensibility a
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― The Major Symptoms Of Hysteria: Fifteen Lectures Given In The Medical School Of Harvard University
― The Major Symptoms Of Hysteria: Fifteen Lectures Given In The Medical School Of Harvard University
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We propose that BPD involves secondary structural dissociation. Consistent with this, Golynkina and Ryle (1999) found that patients with BPD encompassed a dissociative part of the personality that seems to represent an ANP (a coping ANP) and more than one EP (abuser rage, victim rage, passive victim, and zombie). Some patients with BPD have severe dissociative symptoms, and may actually border on DDNOS or DID. Our clinical observations suggest that dissociative parts in BPD patients have less em
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― The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
― The Haunted Self: Structural Dissociation and the Treatment of Chronic Traumatization
