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alternating personality

noun as in dissociative identity disorder

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It remained the chief alternating personality for four years, when "Twoey" again returned.

A rare example of this alternating personality brought about by hypnotism is afforded by the French subject, Mme.

Hundreds of cases of hallucinations, alternating personality, hysterio-epilepsy, and other kindred apparent abnormalities, had been studied by means of hypnotism, and certain processes inhibited or set going at the will of an operator.

He had been profoundly instructed by Tolman's account of a case of alternating personality which he had studied with so much care.

"We learned also," Tolman said in discussion of a certain case which he had studied, "that certain drugs have the power of arousing specific nerve-centres, and that in cases of alternating personality by flooding the brain with blood we were able to bring back the normal self."

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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