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multiple personality disorder en · NOUN

Pronunciation

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Meanings

  1. (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. 2011 October 16, Kyle Smith, “‘Sybil’ is one big psych-out”, in New York Post:

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MPD