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Article: Multiple personality disorder: someone else lives inside me. (includes related article)
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- Current Events, a Weekly Reader publication
- Article date:
- November 1, 1992
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Jack was on death row for a crime he didn't commit. Not exactly, anyway. His finger had pulled the trigger, and his feet had made the getaway. But someone else planned the murder and someone else controlled Jack's brain when the deed was done.
The tricky part is that the "someone else" lives inside Jack. His name is Henry, and he is one of 15 personalities that share Jack's body The jury found it impossible to punish Henry without punishing Jack.
According to experts, there probably are thousands of men like Jack, victims of multiple personality disorder (MPD), in jail for violent crimes committed by one of their alternate personalities, known as ...