Objective Documentation of Child Abuse and Dissociation in 12 Murderers With Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dorothy Otnow Lewis, M.D., et al., American Journal of Psychiatry 1997; 154:1703-1710

ajp.psychiatryonline.org-data-Journals-AJP-3683-1703.pdf

[One reason for skepticism about the reality of normal multiple personality (the subject of this blog) is doubts that you may have about the reality of its clinical counterpart, multiple personality disorder. So to help remove those doubts, here is an article with eight clear, concise pages of the facts about a series of documented cases of multiple personality disorder. Only a tiny percentage of people with multiple personality disorder commit murder—no people with normal multiple personality do so, at least as a result of the multiple personality—but these murder cases have the advantage of publicly available court records with detailed documentation. And the facts in this article might be helpful to writers who want to write realistic fiction on this subject.]