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R P Kluft

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PubMed1987

First-rank symptoms as a diagnostic clue to multiple personality disorder.

Thirty patients with multiple personality disorder had one or more of Schneider's 11 first-rank symptoms at initial assessment (mean = 3.6; range = 1-8). The author describes these symptom categories, eight of which were noted in the patients he interviewed, and illustrates them from the patients' case material. He suggests that inquiry about first-rank symptom phenomena may be a valuable diagnostic clue to the presence of multiple personality disorder.

Delusions↗
PubMed1987

An update on multiple personality disorder.

Within the last decade, multiple personality disorder has been diagnosed, treated, and studied with increasing frequency. A growing body of literature suggests that this condition is not a rarity but that its manifestations, often coexisting with or obscured by other phenomena, frequently go unrecognized for years within the mental health care delivery system. The author reviews recent advances in the understanding of the etiology, diagnosis, and treatment of multiple personality disorder. The thrust of the contemporary literature is that it is a difficult-to-diagnose condition that usually follows severe child abuse, that it is most parsimoniously understood as a chronic dissociative posttraumatic stress disorder, and that it has an excellent prognosis when intensive and prolonged psychotherapy with an experienced clinician is available.

Child↗
PubMed1987

Unsuspected multiple personality disorder: an uncommon source of protracted resistance, interruption, and failure in psychoanalysis.

Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is being recognized with increasing frequency. A great imitator, it may be encountered among patients who appear to have a wide range of other diagnoses, and have been in treatment for years without the presence of MPD being discovered. Nine of 241 MPD patients interviewed by the author, 3.7%, had been accepted for psychoanalysis. In only one case had the diagnosis been appreciated by the analyst prior to his accepting the patient for analytic treatment. Four patients were profoundly resistant and or inaccessible to analysis for protracted periods. In one of these cases the diagnosis became clear and successful analysis was concluded, but three analyses ended unsuccessfully with the diagnosis still unknown. Two patients' analyses were interrupted due to abrupt regressive events initially perceived to indicate severe ego weakness incompatible with sustaining an analytic process, but later appreciated as signs of MPD. In three cases it appeared that the patients' being accepted for analysis triggered the emergence of the dissociative process, and either the patient or the analyst decided to pursue a different form of therapy. Unsuspected MPD appears to account for a small percentage of stalemates, failures, interruptions, and early flights from analysis.

Adult↗
PubMed1986

High-functioning multiple personality patients. Three cases.

This article describes the circumstances of the diagnosis of three of a group of 12 high-functioning multiple personality disorder patients. All had performed major social and professional activities with consistent competence, and all appeared to be neurotic patients suitable for classical psychoanalysis. All 12 had been misdiagnosed on at least three occasions before the correct diagnosis was made. Aspects of the difficulties encountered in assessing these patients are discussed and guidelines for the preservation of their high level of function during the treatment process are offered.

Achievement↗
PubMed1984

Multiple personality in childhood.

Case vignettes illustrate examples of childhood multiple personality disorder, and treatment modalities are described. Guidelines for possible prevention through early diagnosis are offered, as well as two predictor lists for diagnosis--one written by the author and one developed by Dr. Putnam.

Child↗
PubMed1984

Treatment of multiple personality disorder. A study of 33 cases.

This article describes treatment results in 33 patients with multiple personality disorder with respect to the major identifying characteristic of the condition: the presence of separate personalities within a single individual. The author discusses responsiveness to treatment, apparent and stable fusion, follow-up, and reassessment.

Adolescent↗