Multiplicity (psychology)

Multiplicity is the psychological phenomenon in which a body can display multiple distinct personas. This phenomenon can feature in identity disturbance, dissociative identity disorder, and other specified dissociative disorders, among other things. Some individuals describe their experience of multiplicity as a form of neurodiversity, rather than something that demands a diagnosis. Since 1994, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) no longer refers to it as "multiple personality disorder", favoring other terms. Multiplicity can also be referred to aspersonality style defined as "an individual's relatively consistent inclinations and preferences across contexts."

Multiplicity (psychology)

Multiplicity is the psychological phenomenon in which a body can display multiple distinct personas. This phenomenon can feature in identity disturbance, dissociative identity disorder, and other specified dissociative disorders, among other things. Some individuals describe their experience of multiplicity as a form of neurodiversity, rather than something that demands a diagnosis. Since 1994, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) no longer refers to it as "multiple personality disorder", favoring other terms. Multiplicity can also be referred to aspersonality style defined as "an individual's relatively consistent inclinations and preferences across contexts."