Apart from F1 Grand Prix, I've been spending my recent weekend re-reading a book by Sidney Sheldon, titled Tell Me Your Dreams.
It is about a lovely lady suffering from Multiple Personality Disorder. An ex-law student myself, I found the subject very challenging, that is, trying to prove to the Court the existence of the disease.
I quote a review from the site http://www.twbookmark.com/books/38/0446607207/
Three gorgeous women.One dangerous secret.
Ashley, elegant yet haunted...Toni, sultry as well as vivacious...Alette, lovely and totally without conceit...three beautiful young women suspected of committing a series of horrifying murders. One of the One of the most bizarre murder trials of the century is about to begin and reveal an astounding, startling piece of medical evidence almost impossible to believe. Sweeping from London to Rome, from Quebec to San Francisco, this latest tale from the world's reigning master storyteller is so much more than a mystery: It is a searching, riveting, and, finally, triumphant foray into the dark, wild depths of the human heart...
....students often ask me whether multiple personality disorder (MPD) really exists. I usually reply that the symptoms attributed to it are as genuine as hysterical paralysis and seizures....--Dr. Paul McHugh
Multiple personality disorder (MPD) is a psychiatric disorder characterized by having at least one "alter" personality that controls behavior. The "alters" are said to occur spontaneously and involuntarily, and function more or less independently of each other. The unity of consciousness, by which we identify our selves, is said to be absent in MPD. Another symptom of MPD is significant amnesia which can't be explained by ordinary forgetfulness. In 1994, the American Psychiatric Association's DSM-IV replaced the designation of MPD with DID: dissociative identity disorder. The label may have changed, but the list of symptoms remained essentially the same.
I will share more when I am done with my reading on MPD.
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