Paul McHugh on Multiple Personality Disorder
Is Multiple Personality Disorder real? Psychiatrist Paul R. McHugh, author of Try to Remember speaks to CBS Sunday Morning about the contentious and ongoing debate surrounding the validity of such a diagnosis.
McHugh suggests in the interview that popular culture has had a greater impact on the diagnosis than science: "It's a story generated by 'Sybil' and generated by the people who followed on after it," said Dr. McHugh. "Multiple personality and trauma are two separate things. And these people have put them together as though they do match. But they only match in story form. We are in Oz here."