The Learning Channel, 1999

Almost from the moment the medical community accepted the existence of Multiple Personality Disorder as a unique but extremely rare condition, the number of reported cases exploded -- from 200 to 25,000. But many scientists and therapists have found reason to doubt the very existence of the disorder -- and patients are reporting troubling permutations in the MPD field.

Brain researchers have failed to find scientific evidence to back up the theory that people repress their most traumatic memories. And former MPD patients have reported being instantly diagnosed with MPD, bombarded with videotapes on sexual abuse and satanic cult abuse, hypnotized and drugged, berated into reporting the existence of "others" in themselves, and told to accuse their parent of the most horrible crimes imaginable -- accusations that they have since recanted. This program will follow efforts to determine what about MPD stands up to the most rigorous of scientific scrutiny -- and what does not -- and asks the viewers themselves to decide where the scientific cards fall in the cruel puzzle of Multiple Personality Disorder.

Directed and Co-Produced by Holly Stadtler; Written and Co-Produced by Eleanor Grant; Narrated by actor Matthew McConaughey.