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Multiple Personalities: A Report of 14 Cases With Implications for Schizophrenia and Hysteria

Bliss, Eugene L.·1980·Archives of General Psychiatry
DOI 10.1001/archpsyc.1980.01780250074009
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Evidence exists to support the concept of pathology or diseases of hypnosis. Multiple personalities is such a syndrome, as are many or perhaps all cases of hysteria (Briquet's syndrome). The crux of multiple personalities is the subject's unrecognized abuse of self-hypnosis, by which she creates personalities, beginning at age 4 to 6 years. The process of self-hypnosis allows the delegation of an experience or a function to an alter ago, henceforth relegated to unconsciousness by the amnesia of hypnosis. Most of these patients qualify for the diagnosis of hysteria (Briquet's syndrome), and many are diagnosed incorrectly as being schizophrenic because of their hallucinations, paranoid ideas, and "delusions." Hysteria may owe many of its characteristics to the self-hypnotic induction of conversion and other symptoms.

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Authors
Bliss, E. L.
Affiliations
University of Utah (US)
Corresponding author
Bliss, Eugene L.
Venue
Archives of General Psychiatry
Publisher
American Medical Association (AMA)
Published
1980-12-01
Volume
37
Issue
12
Pages
1388
ISSN
0003-990X (ISSN-L)
DOI
10.1001/archpsyc.1980.01780250074009
OpenAlex
W2070952382
Cited by
261
References
39
Citations by year
2026: 2 · 2025: 2 · 2023: 1 · 2022: 3 · 2021: 1 · 2020: 1 · 2018: 2 · 2017: 1 · 2016: 3 · 2014: 1 · 2013: 3 · 2012: 2
FWCI
3.45
Type
journal article
Language
en
Open access
closed
Locations
  • Archives of General Psychiatry (publishedVersion)
  • PubMed (publishedVersion)
Topics
  • Health Sciences › Medicine › Psychiatry and Mental health › Psychosomatic Disorders and Their Treatments
  • Life Sciences › Neuroscience › Cognitive Neuroscience › Pain Management and Placebo Effect
  • Social Sciences › Psychology › Clinical Psychology › Psychoanalysis and Psychopathology Research
Keywords
dissociative identity disorder, hypnosis, self-hypnosis, hysteria, conversion disorder, schizophrenia misdiagnosis, hallucinations, delusions
MeSH terms
Adaptation, Psychological, Adult, Female, Humans, Hypnosis, Hysteria, Dissociative Identity Disorder, Schizophrenia, Schizophrenic Psychology, Self Mutilation, Suicide

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