In recent years there has been a dramatic increase in the number of reported cases of multiple personality disorder. It is claimed that these MPD patients were sexually abused as children and developed "alter" personalities to cope with the trauma and therefore had no memories of the abuse until therapy Some of these MPD patients, however, are actually paranoid schizophrenics whose paranoid delusions and hallucinations are interpreted in terms of the alleged repressed childhood abuse.
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