Kenneth Bianchi's Multiple Personality Disorder

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Kenneth Bianchi’s multiple personality disorder seems to be a fake. Kenneth showed his multiple personality while he was beginning questioned by the psychiatric. Multiple personality disorder is a mental disorder that is likely to be developed from a childhood. However, there was not any evidences of Kenneth’s multiple personality disorder symptoms from childhood. It is very unlikely for an individual to post traumatic symptoms without any symptoms from the past. Even though Kenneth was abused by his mother and has been insecure, multiple disorder symptoms were not described and showed. In additional, Kenneth’s behaviour was inconsistent with the person who had been hypnotized. Kenneth showed a different personality named Steve, and he was

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