Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 77. Chapters: Autism in arts, Fictional diseases, Media portrayal of STDs, Mental illness in fiction, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, Snow Crash, The Caves of Steel, Shine, Pollock, List of fictional diseases, Dissociative identity disorder in popular culture, Effy Stonem, Alzheimer's in the media, Corrupted Blood incident, The Hours, Sid and Nancy, Marv, Tira, Dean Koontz's Frankenstein, The Flying Scotsman, Cooties, Thom Kallor, Tuberculosis in popular culture, Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, Captain Trips, List of films featuring mental illness, Misery, Matchstick Men, Nim's Island, Shutter Island, All in the Mind, Lines in the Sand, Autistic art, Are You Right There, Father Ted?, A Fine Madness, Zerophilia, Synesthesia in fiction, The White Plague, The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric & Discredited Diseases, The Ernie Game, Body Awareness, The White Disease, I Never Promised You a Rose Garden, Blue Sky, The Scarlet Plague, Critical, VD Blues, The Transporters, Mark Miles, Outbreak, Cherry Blossom Clinic, Grand Canary, Poppy Shakespeare, Hospital of the Transfiguration, Infected, Agoraphobia. Excerpt: This article is a list of fictional diseases - nonexistent, named medical conditions which appear in fiction where they have a major plot or thematic importance. They may be fictional psychological disorders, magical, from mythological or fantasy settings, have evolved naturally, been engineered artificially (most often created as biological weapons), or be any illness that came forth from the (ab)use of technology. Prince Prospero flees the Red Death.The Masque of the Red Death, picture by Roger Corman, 1964.Items in this list are followed by a brief description of symptoms and other details. Dissociative identity disorder (DID, also referred to as multiple personality disorder or MPD) has been popularized in many works of fiction throughout the world, often as a plot device to allow murderous characters to fool everyone around them. The topic has attracted the attention of professional scholars. This article provides a list of references to DID and MPD in fiction, omitting any which originate through supernatural or other pseudo-scientific causes. Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? is a 1966 American drama film directed by Mike Nichols. The screenplay by Ernest Lehman is an adaptation of the play of the same title by Edward Albee. It stars Elizabeth Taylor as Martha and Richard Burton as George, with George Segal as Nick and Sandy Dennis as Honey. The film was nominated for thirteen Academy Awards, including Best Picture and Best Director for Mike Nichols, and is the only film to be nominated in every eligible category at the Academy Awards. All the four main actors of the film were nominated for Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress. The film won five awards, including a second Academy Award for Best Actress for Elizabeth Taylor and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for Sandy Dennis. However the film lost to A Man for All Seasons for the Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Best Adapted Screenplay aw