split personality

split personality

a lay term for an individual with dissociative identity disorder. It is sometimes confused with schizophrenia, which literally means “splitting of the mind,” but does not involve the formation of a second personality.

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first-person perspective memory

first-person perspective memory see field memory.

Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia (SADS)

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methyldopa

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Welsh Figure Preference Test (WFPT)

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delusion of negation

delusion of negation see nihilism.

pontine nucleus

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