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Identity Diffusion Presenting as Multiple Personality Disorder in a Female Psychopath

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  02 January 2018

William Bruce-Jones  and
Jeremy Coid
William Bruce-Jones
Affiliation:
Interim Secure Unit, Hackney Hospital, London E9
Jeremy Coid*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychological Medicine, St Bartholomew's Hospital, West Smithfield, London EC1A 7BE
*
∗Correspondence
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Abstract

A female psychopath presented multiple forms of psychopathology, including features of ‘multiple personality disorder’. It is proposed that a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder, or the psychodynamic features of borderline personality organisation, should be the exclusion criteria for this condition.

British Journal of Psychiatry (1992), 160, 541–544

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Brief Reports
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The British Journal of Psychiatry , Volume 160 , Issue 4 , April 1992 , pp. 541 - 544
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1992 

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