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Discover LudwigThe phrase "alternative personality" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing different aspects of a person's identity or in psychological discussions about dissociative identity disorder.
Example: "In her writings, she often explores the concept of an alternative personality that emerges in times of stress."
Alternatives: "different persona" or "alternate identity".
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Donald Larking, 67, who attended the same Boston mosque as the suspected bomber, said Tsarnaev believed the voices were part of a "majestic mind control", which was "a way of breaking down a person and creating an alternative personality with which they must coexist".
In short, he is crying out for an alternative personality.
McCullers "was sort of an alternative personality before that phrase was coined," she said.
With little warning, this milquetoast father gradually assumes an alternative personality, the Mr Bones of the title.
These models posit that species-typical psychological mechanisms take as input cues from the individual's phenotype that would have been ancestrally linked to differential cost benefit tradeoffs of alternative personality strategies, and produce as output personality trait levels with the greatest probabilistic net benefit for the individual.
Riff later declares to Cain that he secretly works for Delilah: the loyal, kind-hearted Riff Cain had known is an alternative personality used to deceive others.
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Her signature work is a form of self-erasure, using theatrical devices to cloak herself in alternative personalities.
As long as Filipinos continue to embrace this tradition, and because the political process is thereby being robbed on alternative personalities at the top of the political food chain, it is likely that more plundering of national assets will continue in the future.
This approach of placing several, positively as well as negatively connoted items on both ends of each scale aims at addressing two central shortcomings of alternative short personality measures: First, it takes several facets of one personality dimension into account.
"More than anything, we appear to attract people who are adventuresome, curious, artistic, expressive, alternative -- personality types, that is, instead of demographics," responded Comer when I asked him about The Portal's target audience.
This paper links Criterion A of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — 5th Edition Alternative Model for Personality Disorders with the contemporary interpersonal model of personality pathology.
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