How to screen for multiple personality (post 2): Do you need to use hypnosis or a drug-assisted interview? No, in most cases.

I have never used hypnosis or a drug-assisted interview to screen for multiple personality, to meet a person’s alternate personalities, and to make this diagnosis.

Hypnosis and drug-assisted interviews are more likely to be used by clinicians who specialize in multiple personality, which I have not. It has never been more than about four percent of my psychiatric practice.

Most diagnoses of multiple personality are made by clinicians who do not specialize in it, and who are very surprised when they first see it, because it was barely mentioned in their training.