multiple personality

collocation in English

meaningsofmultipleandpersonality

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multiple
adjective
uk
/ˈmʌl.tɪ.pəl/us
/ˈmʌl.tə.pəl/
very many of the same type, or of ...
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personality
noun
uk
/ˌpɜː.sənˈæl.ə.ti/us
/ˌpɝː.sənˈæl.ə.t̬i/
the type of person you are, shown by the way you behave, feel, ...
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(Definition ofmultipleandpersonalityfrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

Examplesofmultiple personality

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He accused it of having amultiplepersonalitydisorder.
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Kimberly realizes she has amultiplepersonalitydisorder.
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He seems to have some sort ofmultiplepersonalitydisorder.
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She is placed in a psychiatric hospital, where the doctors diagnose her withmultiplepersonalitydisorder.
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People with borderline disorder, depression, sociopathy, obsessive-compulsive disorder, autism,multiplepersonality, or schizophrenia have developed along a specific pathway toward psychopathology.
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In more extreme cases yet, the current me can disavow and disown current aspects of ' itself ' with which it alternates for control of this one body (multiplepersonalitycases).
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The hallmark of such fragmentation among those withmultiplepersonalitydisorders is that there is little or no awareness or coconsciousness on the part of some personalities for other personalities.
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The clinical phenomenology ofmultiplepersonalitydisorder : 100 recent cases.
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The prevalence ofmultiplepersonality.
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The childhood antecedents ofmultiplepersonality.
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Recent research onmultiplepersonalitydisorder.
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Diagnosis and treatment ofmultiplepersonalitydisorder.
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Diagnosis and treatment ofmultiplepersonalitydisorders.
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Diagnosis of childhoodmultiplepersonalitydisorder.
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If one can provide a woman who is amultiplepersonality, so much the better—that is the normal attitude.
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This issue has been illustrated with discussions of particular cases such as autism andmultiplepersonalitydisorder.
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Disorders such asmultiplepersonalitydisorder are often in the extreme end of the continuum that begins with normal differentiation.
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