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>From: weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu (Matthew P Wiener)
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Subject: Re: Definition of personality
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Date: 27 Feb 92 15:39:58 GMT
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In-reply-to: christo@psych.toronto.edu (Christopher Green)

In article <1992Feb27.045837.2863@psych.toronto.edu>, christo@psych (Christopher Green) writes:
>As for the controversy about MPS, it comes from clinicians.

Yes.  Their track record of coming up with every other possible (and
wrong diagnosis) is abysmal.

>							     Most
>experimentalists couldn't care less.

I was thinking of Spanos and his claims.  He also claims "hypnosis"
does not actually exist, only something just like it.

>				      Apart from the guy in Nova
>Scotia who claims to have 50 cases he's currently treating,

There's one doctor here at Penn who has treated > 100 cases.  Roughly
10000 have been diagnosed in the past decade.

>							     many
>clinicians and psychiatrists say they've never seen a full-blown
>case.

Well yes.  They do say that.  Most MPDers get bounced around with wrong
diagnoses for years.

>      It's not like Sybil and the three faces of Eve, you know.

You're right.  It is often worse.
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-Matthew P Wiener (weemba@libra.wistar.upenn.edu)


