Strange Case of Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde[1] is a
novella written by the
Scottish author
Robert Louis Stevenson and first published in 1886. It is about a
London lawyer who investigates strange occurrences between his old friend, Dr Henry Jekyll
[2], and the
misanthropic Edward Hyde. The work is known for its vivid portrayal of the
psychopathology of a
split personality; in mainstream culture the very phrase "Jekyll and Hyde" has come to mean a person who may show a distinctly different character, or profoundly different behaviour, from one situation to the next, as if almost another person, possibly because of the rare disorder "
multiple personality disorder" (more recently renamed "
Dissociative Identity Disorder").
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