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Subject: Re: Any programs out there with multiple personality disorder?

Author: Cliff Sears

Date: 02:39:27 08/11/04

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>
>"Multiple Personality Disorder" (MPD) is an obsolete term.
>
>It has been superseeded by "Dissociative Identity Disorder" (DID) in the DSM-IV
>(Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders - Fourth Edition,
>published by the American Psychiatric Association, Washington D.C., 1994, the
>main diagnostic reference of Mental Health professionals in the United States of
>America.).
>
>DID is generally caused by repeated extreme trauma during childhood. Any young
>chess program experiences this kind of trauma when it plays against the strong
>commercial ones, so I would say that all chess programs must end up with this
>kind of disorder. :)
>
>
>
>    Christophe

LOL - I have been defeated by Political Correctness Again! :-)

Anyway I have that DID and it does not go away until my second or third cup of
coffee ;-)

Cliff



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