K N O X V I L L E, Tenn., May 1 -- — Police heard the confession on tape: A man said he raped and strangled a woman. After that, "I throwed her down and left her lying there," said the loud and angry ...

Once known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder remains one of the most intriguing but poorly understood mental illnesses. Research and clinical experience indicate people ...

Anyone who has seen the classic movies “The Three Faces of Eve,” “Sybil,” or most recently, M. Night Shyamalan’s movie “Split,” knows that they focus on people afflicted with what is arguably the most ...

In Sybil Exposed, Debbie Nathan explores the life of Shirley Mason — the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book and 1976... Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life ...

In the middle of answering a question during a recent phone interview, Karen Marshall, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in — and lives with — dissociative identity disorder (DID), ...

Her name is Alice, at least that is the name I’m using in this blog. I have known her since 1966. She was 16. I didn’t know much about multiple personalities at that time nor was I sure I wanted to ...