This case report describes a 16-year-old patient, who presented with multiple personalities. A diagnosis of dissociative identity disorder (DID) was considered, but rejected, based on the patient's presenting psychopathology and a lack of confidence in the current scientific literature describing the diagnosis. DID is a rare diagnosis in Danish clinical practice and there is much dissent concerning its validity.
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