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"Down with skepticism, up with awareness." Label on a button at a MPD conference.

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"Every MPD patient in the country owes a personal debt of  gratitude to Buddy [Braun]. He's the first ever to get a unit set up for these people, and all the other units around the country follow the trail he has blazed." M. Keenan, New City article, 1995-JUN-22: "The Devil and Dr. Braun." 1

bullet"...students often ask me whether multiple personality disorder (MPD) really exists. I usually reply that the symptoms attributed to it are as genuine as hysterical paralysis and seizures." Dr. Paul McHugh
bulletA "creature of the consulting room which patients and therapists manufacture." Description of MPD by a member of the British False Memory Society.
bullet" I have this head shrinker and he says...[MPD is]...deliberately induced because the CIA is where they started inducing it when after they brought all the Nazis over from Germany to run American Psychiatric Association....It is all mind control and all kinds of things to invent people with multiple personalities....  I believe the government has implanted some kind of a chip into my head where... [my thoughts are] monitored by Barbara Walters and these other women. And they take  all my ideas...I think [Oprah] sits with her finger on the switch to the chip....several times I wondered if I had multiple personality disorder. In fact, or if I was just from another planet."  Roseanne on the Larry King Show, 2001-AUG-16

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Some material in the essays linked to this menu may seem to read like a really bad work of fantasy-fiction. You might suspect that the author has dissociated from reality. However, we assure you that sincere, intelligent and caring people really do hold these beliefs. They learn and teach them at seminars and conferences, and use them during therapy and exorcisms. One result is many patients/clients who enter therapy with minor emotional problems become convinced that their minds have been fractured into many personalities. Many become emotionally disabled and unable to function as workers, spouses and parents. A few have committed suicide.

This is a wild ride, so fasten your seat belts.

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MPD/DID topics discussed in this section:

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bulletNature and history
bulletSybil's case

bulletTwo main, conflicting views: MPD/DID viewed as:
bulleta serious psychological disorder, 
bulleta psychological fad created by therapists which does not occur in nature.

bulletFour other views: 
bulleta byproduct of demon possession, or 
bulletan intentionally induced disorder
bulleta naturally occurring phenomenon

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bulletRecent events in the news (1996 to now)

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bulletMind control / programming by Satanic cults
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References:

  1. M. Keenan, "The Devil and Dr. Braun," New City article, 1995-JUN-22:  Mentioned in FMS Foundation Newsletter, at: http://www.fmsfonline.org/fmsf99.n24.html 
  2. The International Society for the Study of Dissociation has a web site at: http://www.issd.org/  Its official publication is the Journal of Trauma and Dissociation. See: http://www.issd.org/indexpage/jtdauthorsinfo.html There are allegations that the ISSD controls the content of the The Journal of Psychiatry & Law (JPSLA). These are not to be mistaken for the The Journal of the American Academy of Psychiatry and the Law or International Journal of Law and Psychiatry."
  3. Russ Dewey, "Reasons for Caution about Diagnosis of MPD / DID," Psych Web, at: http://www.psywww.com/

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Copyright © 1998 to 2008 by Ontario Consultants on Religious Tolerance
Originally written: 1998-JAN-11

Last updated on 2008-JUN-06
Author: B.A. Robinson

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