Dissociated Personality

Morton prince M.D wrote the article on Hysteria from the point of view of Dissociated Personality. According to the Columbia Encyclopedia, it was noted that he was an American physician and he specialized in neurology and abnormal psychology, as a physician in Boston and a founder and editor of the Journal of Abnormal Psychology. In addition, he was a leading investigator of pathology of mental disorders and he led and directed the Harvard Psychological Clinic. He was a professor of Diseases of the Nervous System, at Tufts College Medical School. His writing includes The Dissociation of a personality in 1906 and The Unconscious (1914). However, this paper focuses on the summary the treatment of the background premise behind the article, the

First, one needs to know the meaning of hysteria and amnesia in order to understand the multiple personality aspects. In accordance to the Merriam-Webster, hysteria is a state in which a person’s emotions such as fear are so strong that the person behaves in an uncontrolled way. Thus, amnesia is a loss of memory sometimes including the memory of personal identity due to brain injury, shock, fatigue, repression, or illness or sometimes induced by

Further, amnesia was not an essential characteristic of secondary personalities, and hysteria may alternate with other symptom-complexes, such that amnesia is exhibited. He concluded that certain symptom-complexes commonly placed under the name of hysteria with or without amnesia, are to be regarded as disintegrated or secondary personality, which, when taken in connection with the normal condition, are to be regarded as a phase of multiple personality. However, in the article gave examples of patients without fully disclosing their identities. For instance, in the case studied, he noted that a certain length of time, either through artificial interference such as the hypnotizing process of (Case I, III, IV, and X) or as a result of an emotional shock (Case VI), or it may be without demonstrable cause (Case V), the subject suddenly becomes completely and wholly normal. Suddenly, the patients relapse that is a sudden restoration in mass of the previous hysteric states. Thus, the hysteric states are reestablished, but not amnesia for the first time is added to the hysterical symptom-complex. Hence, the psychosis is suddenly developed, as often occurs after a shock on amnesia and the hysteric state of the patients. The writer explained his findings of the case study and at the same time gave details of his conclusions, which differs