MULTIPLE PERSONALITY AS SEQUEL TO HYPERVENTILATION SYNDROME
JOSEPH S. SILVERMAN 1
1 Waiston Army Hospital, Fort Dix, N. J.; and Department of Psychiatry, University of Pittsburgh School of Medicine
Hyperventilation syndrome apparently triggered dissociative reactions in two patients. Overbreathing under the examiner's direction reproduced dissociative reactions similar to those which occurred spontaneously. A rudimentary form of multiple personality was demonstrated in each case.
