K N O X V I L L E, Tenn., May 1 -- — Police heard the confession on tape: A man said he raped and strangled a woman. After that, "I throwed her down and left her lying there," said the loud and angry ...

Once known as multiple personality disorder, dissociative identity disorder remains one of the most intriguing but poorly understood mental illnesses. Research and clinical experience indicate people ...

Anyone who has seen the classic movies “The Three Faces of Eve,” “Sybil,” or most recently, M. Night Shyamalan’s movie “Split,” knows that they focus on people afflicted with what is arguably the most ...

In Sybil Exposed, Debbie Nathan explores the life of Shirley Mason — the psychiatric patient whose life was portrayed in the 1973 book and 1976... Shirley Mason was the psychiatric patient whose life ...

In the middle of answering a question during a recent phone interview, Karen Marshall, a licensed clinical social worker who specializes in — and lives with — dissociative identity disorder (DID), ...

This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American In 2015, doctors in Germany reported the ...

Whether or not a person can have multiple personalities is a controversial subject. "This is something abstract,” “Monsters Inside: The 24 Faces of Billy Milligan” docuseries director Olivier Megaton ...

Lizzie Duszynski-Goodman is a journalist living in the Midwest with her husband and two young children. Her work explores the intersection of mental health, wellness and parenting. She is the former ...

Showtime and Steven Spielberg's DreamWorks Television this fall will start production on The United States of Tara, a half-hour comedy pilot "with a twist," in that it concerns a mom with multiple ...