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Original Article

Behaviour Therapy as Precipitant and Treatment in a Case of Dual Personality

(Clinical Psychologist) (Reader in Psychiatry) (Clinical Psychologist) (Reader in Psychiatry) &
Pages 63-66 | Published online: 06 Jul 2009
 

Abstract

The patient described is a 33-year-old woman, L., who developed a transient dual personality while undergoing desensitization for contact phobia, the alternate personality, Toni, manifesting overtly aggressive behaviour. L. was taught how to behave angrily using role-playing techniques within 48 hours of Toni's first appearance and the alternate personality did not reappear after this treatment was commenced. It is suggested that behavioural psychotherapy may, in some instances of multiple personality, have advantages over psychodynamically oriented psychotherapy, which has frequently been advocated as the treatment of choice for this condition.

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