Myths and Misconceptions by Richard Benson

Author:Richard Benson
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9781631584169
Publisher: Racehorse
Published: 2019-02-25T16:00:00+00:00

You don’t hear the sea when you hold a seashell to your ear. Sorry to disappoint, but the sound you hear is really the sound of your immediate surroundings resonating inside the seashell. You can get the same effect with an ordinary cup that has been nowhere near the sea.

Schizophrenia is not multiple personality disorder. The proper term for the disorder in which one person experiences two or more distinct identities, or personality states, is Dissociative Identity Disorder. Schizophrenia refers to an altogether separate and complex mental disorder, characterized by difficulty in understanding reality and consequent abnormal social behavior. The confusion comes in part from an old, looser definition of the term “schizophrenia,” and in part from the literal translation of the term, which comes from the Greek words for “to split” and “mind”—but this was intended to refer to the splitting of mental functions, not a split personality.

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