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As far as I know Multiple Personality Disorder is, to put it mildly, not very accepted by the mental health community.

I have no doubts at all that one can be truly blind for a variety of non-physical or partially physical reasons, I do not doubt that this woman experienced blindness. But this personality/identity stuff is very questionable indeed.

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That's what makes this so interesting. The EEG readings showing lack of brain response to physical stimulus were correlated with different "personalities". I can't think of a better way of proving the existence of DID.

I don't know anything about the reliability of PsyCh Journal so it's hard to know if we can take this at face value or not.

There's actually the full text available here: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17611729

(At least, I think. Maybe this isn't the updated one?)

I was kinda sceptical about the article until I saw the quotes advocating that DID is totally a real thing from the doctors.

Then I was very sceptical.

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