The Minds of Serial Rapist Billy Milligan

William Stanley Milligan,, courtesy of The Columbus Dispatch, Friday October 28, 2007.

No one has “multiple personality disorder” anymore. It was renamed Dissociative Identity Disorder in 1994 to reflect a more accurate understanding of what happens to the person suffering from it. We now know that someone with DID doesn’t grows a host of new personalities the way a tree might grow new leaves. It’s more like the DID sufferer’s core identity splits or fragments, often in response to trauma. Dissociative…