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>From: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)
Subject: Re: Definition of personality
Message-ID: <1992Feb27.045837.2863@psych.toronto.edu>
Organization: Department of Psychology, University of Toronto
References: <1992Feb26.165452.7666@psych.toronto.edu> <67620@netnews.upenn.edu>
Date: Thu, 27 Feb 1992 04:58:37 GMT

In article <67620@netnews.upenn.edu> weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener) writes:
>In article <1992Feb26.165452.7666@psych.toronto.edu>, christo@psych (Christopher Green) writes:
>>	  MPS is VERY controversial. There are many psychiatrists who
>>question its very existence; that is they question the interpretation of
>>the behavior observed as being the result of two independent "personalities".
>
>I'd say the anti-MPS crowd should get some clinical experience before
>they bad mouth it.  What is a personality?

If you're implying that the MPS comment was a non-sequiter, I agree.
As for the controversy about MPS, it comes from clinicians. Most
experimentalists couldn't care less. Apart from the guy in Nova
Scotia who claims to have 50 cases he's currently treating, many
clinicians and psychiatrists say they've never seen a full-blown
case. It's not like Sybil and the three faces of Eve, you know.


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Christopher D. Green                christo@psych.toronto.edu
Psychology Department               cgreen@lake.scar.utoronto.ca
University of Toronto
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