split personality

noun
multiple personality.
Origin:
1925–30

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split personality
 
—n
1.  the tendency to change rapidly in mood or temperament
2.  a nontechnical term for multiple personality

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Medical Dictionary

split personality n.
See multiple personality.

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People with schizophrenia, however, do not have a split personality.
And it has the added problem of a split personality of its own.
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There is great confusion over the erroneous belief that schizophrenia is the
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