Pardon the digression, folks. I have no idea why this subject came up, but as long as it has and we have a lull...
RevDG:
by the way they call it MID, multiple identity disorder, rather than multiple personality disorder
I'd like to know your source for this, DG, so I'm up to date. The last time I saw an APA definition (DSM-IV) it was called Dissociative Personality Disorder. This would have been six or seven years ago.
That was a new designation with the fourth edition. The APA wanted to discourage the popular misconception that the disorder represents multiple personalities in a single body. It's a single personality, of course, that has fragmented itself into compartmentalized personas. None of the personas comes close to acting as a complete personality.
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Edited by Archer Opterix, : Detail.
Archer
All species are transitional.