Studies at King’s College London support validity of multiple personality: Does this mean that visits to this site from the UK will increase?

Considering the large number of UK writers discussed at this site in the past six years, the number of visitors from the UK has been minimal. I have joked that the UK has a greater belief in ghosts than in alternate personalities.

And as a psychiatrist, I know from articles it used to publish, that the British Journal of Psychiatry had been more than skeptical of the diagnosis.

So I am pleasantly surprised that King’s College London (1) has been studying multiple personality in recent years, with positive results (2, 3).

Their being able, with brain imaging (3), to distinguish the brains of people with and without multiple personality disorder does not necessarily apply to the brains of people with milder, nonclinical, multiple personality trait. But if it did apply, I would not be surprised. For the brains of people with genius are probably different from the brains of people without genius, in some slight but crucial way.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King's_College_London

2. https://www.kcl.ac.uk/ioppn/news/records/2016/may/multiple-personality-disorder-may-be-rooted-in-traumatic-experiences

3. https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/aiding-the-diagnosis-of-dissociative-identity-disorder-pattern-recognition-study-of-brain-biomarkers/DCF85A7D69652C06E61524593B266E8C