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pshrynk · 03-25-2009, 01:46 PM

On a more serious note, there was a time back in the 80's when some boneheaded therapists actually created pathology by taking highly suggestable patients and grilling them about having multiple personalities. It used to drive me nuts when a therapist would walk into a staffing and announce she's found yet another multiple. One therapist stated that he had no less than 200 patients with multiple personality and was, in fact a specialist. He was not amused when I asked him how it was that 60% of the North American poplulation of persons with Multiple Personality Disorder were living in Moline, Illinois, population 46,000.

/rant off...

03-25-2009, 01:46 PM	#21
pshrynk Beepbeep n beebeep, yeah! Posts: 11,726 Karma: 8255450 Join Date: Apr 2008 Location: La Crosse, Wisconsin, aka America's IceBox Device: iThingie, KmkII, I miss Zelda!	On a more serious note, there was a time back in the 80's when some boneheaded therapists actually created pathology by taking highly suggestable patients and grilling them about having multiple personalities. It used to drive me nuts when a therapist would walk into a staffing and announce she's found yet another multiple. One therapist stated that he had no less than 200 patients with multiple personality and was, in fact a specialist. He was not amused when I asked him how it was that 60% of the North American poplulation of persons with Multiple Personality Disorder were living in Moline, Illinois, population 46,000. /rant off...