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From an open letter to Dr Phil by Douglas Mesner at Examiner: http://www.examiner.com/article/journalist-denounces-dr-phil-open-letter-a-public-mental-health-menace Just this week, Dr Phil was promoting the use of psychics in missing persons cases. Now this?! The man is a menace...

This week's episode of 'House' promised an unbelievable twist, with previews saying "We can't show you too much of this episode, it will give it away!" So what was the twist? The patient had Dissociative Personality Disorder. That's right: The first case EVER of DPD arising...

This is an extremely difficult subject for me to bring up. When I was a kid, my parents got involved with a church in the Tulsa area called Morningstar Church. I'd been involved in churches since I was very little, and they were all what you'd expect. Nice people, Sunday School programs...

Shortly after I graduated from high school, I read a book by Flora Reta Schreiber called Sybil. Many of you are probably familiar with it. It tells the story of a young art student in New York in the 1950s and 60s who, with the help of a loving and sympathetic psychiatrist, discovers that she...

Edit: Oh by the way, I mean willing hypnotism ...... Go vote .... and of course comment if desired :)

Multiple Personality Disorder. As inspired by another thread, here's one where we can discuss the psychological phenomena known as Multiple Personality Disorder, or more accurately, Dissociative Identity Disorder. The way the movies and television portrays this condition is not really very...