Sunday, September 30, 2001

DID: Self-rape: Multiple personality: self-rape.

Entrez PubMed: "Multiple personality disorder is the classification given a person for whom two or more distinct personalities are diagnosed. The personalities can be different and vary in character from aggressive to submissive (victimized). The victim alters can be abused and abuse or mutilate self to relieve anxiety or guilt (deserving punishment) or to exert control. Alters may provide a means of expressing anger or other feelings. Aggression towards the body may be sexually oriented, so one may ask whether aggression could make self-rape possible. If so, such expression of self-injuries may be observed in a person with multiple personality as when one alter may injure another. Clinical case material is presented on this concept for a woman who had been formally diagnosed with multiple personality disorder."

Beer D, Beer J, Beer J.
Multiple personality: self-rape.
Psychol Rep. 1994 Dec;75(3 Pt 1):1263-7.
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