Multiple Personality: Four temporary benefits from benevolent therapists who don’t know how to diagnose and treat it

1. The therapist is a safe harbor from family, friends, or even another well-meaning therapist, who have unintentionally provoked various alternate personalities.

2. The patient also has another condition that the therapist does know how to treat.

3. The medication for the other condition inadvertently makes it harder for a problematic alternate personality to take control.

4. The therapist unknowingly supports one or more of the better-functioning alternate personalities.