lly want to help
everyone for the general good. The helper personality is the
personality that is most helpful in therapy because they
usually know about all the other identities (Clark, 1993,
p.80-83). Subpersonalities are not only part of a person
with MPD but they are also evident in emotionally normal
persons as well. Although, in a normal person, he/she
remembers when their subpersonality takes over, but in a MPD
patient, the personality disconnects from the host that the
host can not remember what happens. When a traumatic
experience happens, whether positive or negative, a
subpersonality will develop. In a normal person, the
splitting is broken into an "ok self" and a "not ok self".
In a multiple, the personalities are more defined; they are
broken into smaller fragments that disassociate from the
human host (Rowan, 1990, p. 7, 20).
In the book by Terri A. Clark, M.D., it shows the
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