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Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) or Dissociative Identity
Disorder (DID) was first acknowledged in the 1700's but was
not understood so therefore it was forgotten. Many cases
show up in medical records through the years, but in 1905,
Dr. Morton Prince wrote a book about MPD that is a
foundation for the disease. A few years after it was
published Sigmund Freud dismissed the affliction and this
dropped it from being discussed at any credible mental
health meetings. Since then the disorder has been overlooked
and misdiagnosed as either schizophrenia or psychosis. Many
in the medical profession did not believe that a person
could unknowingly have more than one personality or person
inside one body, even after the in the 1950's Three Faces of
Eve was published by two psychiatrist. In 1993, records
showed that three to five thousand patients were being
treated for MPD compared to the hundred cases reported ten
years earlier. There is still as increase in the number of......

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