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by jaek on July 28th, 2008

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What do you call people with dual personalities?

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  • by gmeades on July 28th, 2008

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    Dual Personality disorder is the appropriate term.

    dual personality n. Multiple personality disorder involving two separate personalities
    http://www.encyclopedia.com/doc/1O87-dualpersonality.html
    http://www.dissociation.com/index/Definition/

    It is a quite different condition from schizophrenia.

    Schizophrenia, which affects about one family in 25, is a brain disorder that is characterized by delusions, hallucinations and loss of touch with reality. It has nothing to do with multiple personality, which is one of the rarest of medical conditions.

    The problem is more than one of semantics. To use ''disinterested'' for ''uninterested'' or ''enormity'' for ''huge size'' may be interesting grist for William Safire's mill, but to use ''schizophrenia'' for ''multiple personality'' is to becloud a word and a condition that are already too poorly understood. When a doctor diagnoses a person as schizophrenic, he or she most definitely does not mean multiple personality.
    http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9D06E4D71138F936A15752C1A963948260

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    • Smart answer.

      meowry

      by meowry on August 1st, 2008

    • Thank you for explaining G.

      jaek

      by jaek on August 4th, 2008

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