European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - June 22, 1985, Darmstadt, Hesse                                The intricate web of multiple personality by Daniel Goleman new York times in his late is a smooth talker who seduces women for their Money his motto is pleasure is where its his is kind and and prides himself on caring for people in in his Early is a highly talented a is so mechanically adept that he can pick a five Tumbler lock with a paper a frightened 10yearold is prone to run away from All these in exist Only As aspects of an air traffic controller who broke Down on the babbling to pilots in baby and who was diagnosed during therapy As having a multiple cases like once considered psychiatric Oddi have taken on new significance in the eyes of re who say the disorder represents a unique Experiment of nature that provides opportunities for exploring the intricate web that connects body and the multiple personality offers a special window into said Frank a psychiatrist at the National Institute of mental health and a leading researcher in the with a multiple personality you can do research that holds the body constant while you vary the so you can sort out How psychological states affect the multiples exhibit some remarkable medical Phe Putnam he gives the example of one patient who reacted normally to a sedative drug in one but was totally unaffected by it in some multiples carry several different because their vision changes with each said Bennett who directs a unit devoted to treat ing multiple personalities at the Lukes medical Center in Braun reports the Case of a Young woman who in one personality was Colo Blind for Blue and a prob Lem that ended with the successful treatment of her multiple personality another admitted to a Hospital for baffled her physicians by showing no symptoms of the disorder at times when one who was not was a Young Man was allergic to Citrus fruit in some personal but not in research on brain patterns of multiples has produced data of unusual Braun reports the Case of a woman at one Point in her manifested four brain wave measurements showed each had a distinct pattern of brain after her successful when these four personalities were blended into a integrated the remaining pattern was still distinct from any one of the previous the differences Between the personalities were significantly greater than Normal people simulating other personalities could said Monte a research psychiatrist at the University of California at who collaborated on the the personalities looked like completely different sceptics that there is far too Little systematic research As yet to establish whether multiple personalities represent something More than an extreme in the Normal abilities of people to present a variety of distinct selves that Are not separate person and others suggest that diagnosis and treatment need the very Effort to make the diagnosis of multiple Page 16 the stars and stripes personality and treat it often May create the said Martin director of the unit for experimental psychiatry at the University of Orne is editor of the International journal for clinical and experimental one of four scholarly journals that have each devoted an entire Issue to the disorder in the last two psychiatric interest and research on the topic has the International society for the study of multiple formed last will hold a meeting next fall in and More than 200 schol arly papers have already been Over the past at the meeting of the american psychiatric association in a workshop was offered to psychiatrists on the diagnosis and the key sign of the disorder is a person seeming to some multiples carry several different because their vision changes with each have developed at least two distinctive personalities that alternate in control of the another important symptom is partial amnesia some but not necessarily All of the multiple personalities Are unaware of the circumstances that Lead to the condition Are usually typically extreme neglect or abuse the likes of which you  in Brauns patients he has studied have undergone Jiruch traumas As being dangled out of a being forced to watch a Mur Der and to dismember the being buried alive and being the victim of sexual most often such events occurred when the patient was Between 3 and 8 years the disorder seems to represent a psychological adaptation to an otherwise unbearable most experts agree that the main predisposing factors Are the ability to go into a spontaneous hypnotic trance and harsh trauma in about 20 percent of people have the capacity to go into such a said Eugene a psychiatrist at the University of it can happen without people knowing he they May think of it As a reverie or or deep All those with multiple personality have this the hypnotic state is apparently used by a child As a kind of psychological according to this temporary defense becomes stabilized into multiple personality when the child faces overwhelm ing the kind of abuse that leads to multiple personal Braun is unpredictable and interspersed with As the multiples have known both love and and they string together one personality that experiences the Good another that embodies the the Parent will be very Loving one then the next switch into a Many of the parents of multiple personalities themselves seem to suffer from the and a surprising amount of the abuse comes from on average there Are from eight to 13 personalities in a typical although there can be More than according to Richard a psychiatrist at the uni june varsity of Pennsylvania who has studied More than a Hundred writing in psychiatric kluft de scribes some of the most common types of personalities a Host typically the one who comes into treatment a childlike personality a competent protector an inner usually modelled after the abusive who tries to harm the other person and an aesthetic impervious to that apparently arose to endure in the More severe and relentless the precipitating the More personalities there will Many of the personalities seem to function As cushions against the pain of physical there seems to be a limit to How much trauma a Given personality can Putnam its As though each were a Buffer when Means a new one must be multiple personality May mimic the Gamut of psychiatric according to a report in the Jour Nal of clinical and is therefore often mis depending on the personality the diagnoses can Range from schizophrenia and depression to the report urges clinicians treating patients who have received a plethora of diagnoses Over several years and who have failed to respond to Standard treat ments to consider the possibility of multiple estimates of the prevalence of multiple personality vary a research bulletin of the Institute of noetic which has supported some of the estimates that there May be As Many As people with the disorder in the United Only about 10 percent of whom have been other estimates Range from one in 200 people to one in according to an estimate by Bliss in a recent Issue of the american journal of As Many As 10 percent of psychiatric patients May have the Disord though almost none of them Are so other Are sceptical of the and see the diagnosis As for there have been More cases of the disorder reported in the last 10 years than in the history of the world Corbett Thigpen and Hervey the psychiatrists who wrote the three faces of probably the bes known account of multiple personal have reported that out of hundreds of cases referred to them As possible multiple Only one other actually had the like Thigpen and Cleckley believe the disorder but feel that it is far rarer than some others Putnam Points out that the diagnosis can be extremely difficult to and Many cases seem to go even by therapists who Are treating in a study of 100 cases of patients being treated for multiple personality it was found that 80 of the personalities who came for treatment were not initially aware of the existence of the alternate studies have found that a majority of patients diag nosed As having multiple personality had had an aver age of four psychiatric diagnoses before and Many had been in treatment for seven years or longer without their therapists realizing what was going treating multiple according to is grueling for the therapist and exquisitely uncomfortable for the the therapist often uses hypnosis to Contact All the and then Methodi Cally integrates them into what amounts to single per son group along the Way the patient will have to to some the traumatic events of Bis childhood that have been sealed off in the Mem Ory of one or More of the