Am J Psychiatry 1987; 144:293-298
Copyright © 1987 by American Psychiatric Association
First-rank symptoms as a diagnostic clue to multiple personality disorder
RP Kluft
Thirty patients with multiple personality disorder had one or more of
Schneider's 11 first-rank symptoms at initial assessment (mean = 3.6; range
= 1-8). The author describes these symptom categories, eight of which were
noted in the patients he interviewed, and illustrates them from the
patients' case material. He suggests that inquiry about first- rank symptom
phenomena may be a valuable diagnostic clue to the presence of multiple
personality disorder.
