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Split Personality is a mental disorder that can result from events like a botched fork merge or infection with an alien nanovirus. Multiple Personalities bioware surgically partitions the brain so it can host an additional Ego, often a fork of the main Ego or a friend of theirs.
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Basic Trope: A character whose mind is split into multiple...
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Super Robot Wars: Split Personality is the gimmick of the...
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In the Super Smash Bros. fic trilogy Flinch, Sheik is a...
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Many tropes originated in literary works. Literature being...
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Split Personality /. Live-Action TV. One client in Ally...
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Starring Sally Field and Joanne Woodward, Sybil is based on the bestselling 1973 book of the same name, which sold more than six million copies in the United States within four years of its publication. It chronicles the real story of teacher Sybil Dorsett (a pseudonym for Shirley Ardell Mason), who manifested 16 different personalities after endur...
Though it’s now considered a rather shallow and simplistic depiction of DID, this 1957 film marks one of the first onscreen portrayals of the disorder, chronicling the real story of Christine Costner Sizemore. After experiencing severe headaches and chronic blackouts, she visits a psychiatrist, who uncovers several alters: Eve White, Eve Black, and...
After developing a fear that he’ll die if anyone touches him, teenager David (Keir Dullea) is brought to a psychiatric treatment center where he befriends a girl with DID named Lisa (Janet Margolin). This 1962 film, which was nominated for two Oscars for its direction and screenplay, does well to depict the way society reflexively turns its back on...
This documentary follows therapist Karen Marshall as she treats people with dissociative identity disorder while juggling 17 alters of her own. It focuses on Karen and one of her patients, Marshay, who struggles to both believe and remember that Karen has DID at all. It’s a candid and at times haunting depiction of DID and repression that excels th...
Sam Esmail’s four-season hacker-thriller is worth watching just for the intense detail and gripping story, but it’s also an enthralling exploration of mental health and trauma. The show takes its time diving into the depths of main character Elliot’s (Rami Malek) mind, but ultimately portrays DID with sensitivity and care. (Esmail consulted with a ...
Voices Within is a 1990 miniseries that follows the real story of Truddi Chase, a woman who had 92 separate personalities. It’s based on Chase’s own book, When Rabbit Howls, and she was also closely involved in the script for the show. What results is an interrogation of the stereotypes and stigma surrounding DID, as well as a closer look at Chase’...
United States of Tara is certainly the most comedic entry on this list. Starring Toni Collette and written by Diablo Cody (Juno, Jennifer’s Body, Tully), the three-season Showtime series follows artist and mother Tara Gregson as she shifts between multiple identities while trying to maintain a sense of normality. Ranging from a flirty teenager to a...
Though a fictional thriller, Primal Fear chronicles a case that closely resembles Billy Milligan’s. It revolves around a young altar boy, Aaron (Edward Norton), who’s being tried for the brutal murder of an archbishop. Once it becomes apparent that Aaron may — or may not — have DID brought about by childhood abuse, his lawyer argues that he should ...
DID is ultimately a cliff note in the plot of David Fincher’s 1999 classic Fight Club, but the film does deal heavily with dissociation. Starring Edward Norton, it follows a man who meets strange soap salesman named Tyler Durden (Brad Pitt) and finds himself living in his dilapidated house. Together, they start an underground fight club for men to ...
Director M Night. Shyamalan took inspiration from Milligan’s case while crafting this 2016 psychological thriller. It centers around Kevin Wendell Crumb (James McAvoy), a man with 23 personalities who is primarily controlled by the most agreeable alter, “Barry.” However, one of his more violent alters overtakes him and kidnaps a young girl (Anya Ta...
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Apr 16, 2019 · Apr 16, 2019, 8:04 AM PDT. James McAvoy plays a man with dissociative identity disorder in both "Split" and "Glass." Here are three of his 24 identities. Universal Pictures; INSIDER composite...
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25. Play trailer 1:49. 2 Videos. 99+ Photos. Comedy Drama Romance. A woman struggles to find a balance between her dissociative identity disorder and raising a dysfunctional family. Creator. Diablo Cody. Stars. Toni Collette. John Corbett. Rosemarie DeWitt. See production info at IMDbPro. STREAMING. S1-3. RENT/BUY. from $10.29. search Amazon.
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Jul 25, 2004 · "split personality" TV Shows — The Movie Database (TMDB) 7 shows. Rosario + Vampire (ロザリオとバンパイア) January 3, 2008. An ordinary high school boy fails to get into any private academy except one — which happens to be populated by supernatural creatures disguised as humans. To survive, he has to pretend that he is one of them and blend in.
Jan 17, 2019 · Split was an unqualified hit and most of the credit for that goes to James McAvoy. In the role of Kevin Wendell Crumb, he played a man suffering from dissociative identity disorder who contained...
