What is multiple personality disorder?
Multiple personality disorder is the former name for dissociative identity disorder.
What are dissociative disorders?
A dissociative disorder is the breakdown of one's perception of his/her surroundings, memory, identity, or consciousness.
There are four main kinds of dissociative disorders:
- Dissociative amnesia
- Dissociative fugue
- Dissociative identity disorder (previously called multiple personality disorder)
- Depersonalization disorder
For more information, see Dissociative Disorders
Reviewed by athealth on February 6, 2014.