Dissociated personality: A case report

Multiple personality: A single case study with a 15 year follow-up

“…To the cases discussed by Sutcliffe and Jones could be added that described by Maddison (1953) after a head injury and the case described by Lewis (1953), occurring in the setting of partially treated GPI. The case reported by Franz (1933), which is shown later (Lipton, 1943) to be possibly schizophrenic, is another example of multiple personality occurring in a state other than hysteria. Sutcliffe and Jones discuss the work of Abeles and Schilder (1935) who collected 63 cases of transient loss of personal identity lasting up to two weeks where the diagnosis of an acute psychotic illness or organic confusional state had been excluded.…”

“…Janet suggests that the frequency of the personality changes becomes less with age, with a tendency for the lively energetic personality to predominate. Lipton reviewed his case five years after his first report, but his patient may have been suffering from a schizophrenic illness, and thus be atypical (Lipton, 1948). Similarly, Lewis gives a 20 year follow-up on the case that he reports, but this man suffered from GPL…”

Diagnosis and symptomatology.

“…Contcntlcss panic associated with bizarrc fragmented nightmares may occur. Conversion and dissociative symptoms do not rule out the diagnosis (94,320,324,331,567). Phobias and obsessions may be prominent (221,382,420,480,507,518); the patient may, however, think that their presence is the work of another person (315).…”