Objective Documentation of Child Abuse and Dissociation in 12 Murderers With Dissociative Identity Disorder
Dorothy Otnow Lewis, M.D., et al., American Journal of Psychiatry 1997; 154:1703-1710
ajp.psychiatryonline.org-data-Journals-AJP-3683-1703.pdf
[One reason for skepticism about the reality of normal multiple personality (the subject of this blog) is doubts that you may have about the reality of its clinical counterpart, multiple personality disorder. So to help remove those doubts, here is an article with eight clear, concise pages of the facts about a series of documented cases of multiple personality disorder. Only a tiny percentage of people with multiple personality disorder commit murder—no people with normal multiple personality do so, at least as a result of the multiple personality—but these murder cases have the advantage of publicly available court records with detailed documentation. And the facts in this article might be helpful to writers who want to write realistic fiction on this subject.]
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BASIC CONCEPTS
— When novelists claim they do not invent it, but hear voices and find stories in their head, they are neither joking nor crazy.
— When characters, narrators, or muses have minds of their own and occasionally take over, they are alternate personalities.
— Alternate personalities and memory gaps, but no significant distress or dysfunction, is a normal version of multiple personality.
— normal Multiple Personality Trait (MPT) (core of Multiple Identity Literary Theory), not clinical Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
— The normal version of multiple personality is an asset in fiction writing when some alternate personalities are storytellers.
— Multiple personality originates when imaginative children with normal brains have unassuaged trauma as victim or witness.
— Psychiatrists, whose standard mental status exam fails to ask about memory gaps, think they never see multiple personality.
— They need the clue of memory gaps, because alternate personalities don’t acknowledge their presence until their cover is blown.
— In novels, most multiple personality, per se, is unnoticed, unintentional, and reflects the author’s view of ordinary psychology.
— Multiple personality means one person who has more than one identity and memory bank, not psychosis or possession.
— Euphemisms for alternate personalities include parts, pseudonyms, alter egos, doubles, double consciousness, voice or voices.
— Multiple personality trait: 90% of fiction writers; possibly 30% of public.
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