Pointed via Denyse as usual, the Multiple Personality shit is enjoying a resurgence. Apparently the new version is closely tied to “gender” transformations as you might expect.
MPD is a cult. Nothing less. I saw it up close in the late 70s. A therapist who “multiplied” people had a part-time faculty position at Phillips and an office in the YWCA. He had a cult slave named Janis** who lived in the YWCA and depended on him for constant maintenance and reinforcement of her various “splits”.
Like most psychotherapy including the default drug methods, the purpose is addiction and control. There are exceptions, just as there are still some exceptional MDs who try to help the body do its own work. But the exceptions have no power in the boards and accreditors, and the addictors are firmly in charge of body and mind.
** Hmm. Come to think of it, Janis was nicely aptronymous.
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