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PSYCHOLOGY - Identity Crisis - What is it like to live with 17 alternate selves? A survivor of multiple personality disorder discusses the disease and the painful integration process that made her whole. By Anne Underwood | Newsweek Web Exclusive Oct 22, 2007 Multiple personality disorder is a perplexing phenomenon to outside observers, believed to be brought on by persistent childhood abuse. What is it like living with MPD? And how does a sufferer function, with so many alternate personalities--or "alters"--some of them adults and some children? NEWSWEEK's Anne Underwood spoke with Karen Overhill--a former sufferer and the subject of a new book, "Switching Time," by Dr. Richard Baer. Excerpts: http://www.newsweek.com/id/57861

Mysteries of the mind unfold at program 10-06-2006 "Eve," whose real name is Chris Costner Sizemore, and her son, Bobby, spoke to Stetson University students recently at a special program that included a lecture, slide show of Chris' artwork, a frank question-and-answer session, and a reception. Chris talked openly of her struggles with Multiple Personality Disorder, which in her case had manifested itself in more than 20 personas over several decades. She has been healed for 30 years....Chris was the subject of the 1957 book by Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley, "The Three Faces of Eve" (Kingsport Press), and of the subsequent movie of the same name. Chris said her many personalities arose in response to "hurtful events" during childhood. Today, "I don't need them," she said of the personalities. "As a whole person, I can face my realities and deal with them." http://www.stetson.edu/marcom/articles/view.php?type=stories&id=198