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Multiplicity and Legal IssuesWe welcome your comments! Please click here to email us.
Multiple personality in the Courts: A Review of the
North American Experience By Dr David James, Royal Free Hospital School
of Medicine, London. Extremely detailed and very much worth reading. Find out what the legal and medical professions currently think of us: and read this commentary by Amorpha^Azusa, on the use of multiplicity as an excuse for irresponsible and criminal behaviour.
Am I My Alter's Keeper? When multiples commit crimes, who is responsible? Is it really possible for one person in the group to commit crimes while the others remain completely unaware? Does multiple personality ever occur in the absence of mental illness or problems such as depression? Note: Like most of the articles in this section, this is real MPD-as-illness stuff, with the idea that anyone who is multiple has "something wrong and dysfunctional" about them no matter how well the group gets on.
Testimony of Selves Ruled Admissible in
Minnesota By Pamela Huey, Minneapolis Star Tribune, August 27, 1997. This
is one of several cases in which persons in a multiple system have been sworn
in separately to testify in court.
A lot of articles about multiple personality and criminal responsibility may
be found on Pat McClendon's Clinical Social Work
Database.
The Sarah Trial Our coverage of the case of the
Minnesota household who brought statutory rape charges against Mark Peterson
in 1990.
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