Multiple personality and the concept of a person |
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| Affiliation: | 1. Gillberg Neuropsychiatry Centre, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;2. Department of Clinical Science, Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, Umeå University, Sweden;3. Department of Clinical Sciences Lund, Lund University, Lund, Sweden;4. Centre for Clinical Research, County of Västmanland, Uppsala University, Västerås, Sweden;5. Department of Medical Epidemiology and Biostatistics, Karolinska Institutet, Stockholm, Sweden;6. Centre for Psychiatry Research, Stockholm, Sweden;7. Centre for Ethics Law and Mental Health, University of Gothenburg, Gothenburg, Sweden;8. The Swedish School of Sport and Health Sciences, Stockholm, Sweden;1. IESC – Institute of Public Health Studies at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ) Brazil;2. NUPES – Center for Research into Spirituality and Health in the Faculty of Medicine at the Federal University of Juiz de Fora (UFJF) Brazil |
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| Abstract: | The phenomenology and psychosocial conditions of the multiple personality syndrome are examined, and the problem that this syndrome seems to raise for the idea of a single self-conscious psychological subject is explored. Tracing the development of the disorder in a disturbed, emotionally repressive, and often violent family background, an explanation for this process is sought in terms of the cognitive effort involved in the achievement of self-identity. It is contended that, far from undermining a strong principle of the self-conscious psychological unity of the individual, this disorder provides a key to the understanding of that unity and the influences to which it is subject. |
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