Is it Credible That Charles Dickens or Mark Twain Had Multiple Personality: Is Kenneth A. Nakdimen, M.D., the Writer of This Blog, the World’s Foremost Authority on Anything?

I am certainly not the foremost authority on Dickens, Twain, or any of the other famous novelists I discuss. And if you are a Dickens or Twain scholar, or you are a professor of literature, creative writing, and literary theory, or you are a successful novelist, then you certainly know much more about these things than I do.

Nor am I the world’s foremost expert on multiple personality. In my general psychiatric practice, I have diagnosed and treated literally dozens of patients who had multiple personality. But there are some psychiatrists, who, having specialized in multiple personality, and having seen literally hundreds of such patients, know more about it than I do.

The question is: Do any of the authorities who know more than I do about either literature or multiple personality, know as much as I do about both?

Most literary experts, including those with psychoanalytical interests, have only superficial knowledge of multiple personality. And most psychiatrists—including the relatively few with expertise in multiple personality—have not studied literature or writers with regard to multiple personality.

So although I am not one of the foremost experts in either literature or multiple personality, I am one of the few people in the world who knows enough about both fields to see how one relates to the other.