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As for the science that the author believes is the only factor in disease outcome, consider Bernie's reference to multiple-personality patients who exhibit disease as one personality, such as diabetes, that is not present in other personalities.
Trish Kinney: Healing Is More Than Science Trish Kinney 2011
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Ed Norton got an Oscar nomination for the most melodramatic part ever, a stuttering Southern man with multiple-personality disorder on trial for double murder.
Top 10 Unintentional Comedies of the 90s » Scene-Stealers 2009
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He gradually begins to get a handle on her problem: that she suffers from a multiple-personality disorder.
Marshall Fine: HuffPost Review: Frankie & Alice Marshall Fine 2011
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As for the science that the author believes is the only factor in disease outcome, consider Bernie's reference to multiple-personality patients who exhibit disease as one personality, such as diabetes, that is not present in other personalities.
Trish Kinney: Healing Is More Than Science Trish Kinney 2011
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Elfin, big-eyed, with corkscrew curls, Michael Sheen's Hamlet has a multiple-personality disorder.
Multiple Personalities at Play Paul Levy 2011
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Fittingly, Rita Sobrol Campos's photographic record of an old-time Olivetti typewriter text work, The Last Myth In The History Of Mankind, makes cryptic use of the writings of the early-20th century Portuguese poet Fernando Pessoa, perhaps the most self-questioning multiple-personality, spirited melancholic and forward-looking nostalgic in the entire history of world literature.
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Federal authorities have charged a man with multiple-personality disorder with threatening in a YouTube video to kill Rep. Eric Cantor; the suspect is not competent to stand trial.
Hate 2010
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One can see a version of clashing multiple selves in the mental illness known as dissociative-identity disorder, which used to be called multiple-personality disorder.
First Person Plural 2008
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Additionally, having more than one case of MPD may make it confusing (“wait, is this the same multiple-personality girl from before?”) # Bretton 07 Nov 2008 at 4: 27 am
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Her chief competition is another Showtime star: Toni Collette, last year's winner for the multiple-personality tour de force of United States of Tara.
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