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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Saturday, March 8, 2014

Blog Update: National Popularity, Most-Viewed Posts, and Unknowns

People from more than 30 countries have visited this blog. The most visitors have come from: China, Germany, India, Malaysia, Philippines, Russia, Serbia, South Korea, UK, and USA.

The eight most-viewed posts:
—19 June 2013: Dickens, Multiple Personality, and Writers
—4 Oct 2013: Stephen King’s and Toni Morrison’s Characters
—16 Dec 2013: Multiple Identity Literary Theory
—18 Jan 2014: Henry James and the Host Personality
—24 Oct 2013: Who Wrote Toni Morrison’s Jazz?
—20 Nov 2013: Henry James’s “Turn of the Screw”
—10 Dec 2013: Twain’s Excellent Memory & Absent-Mindedness
—4 Nov 2013: Atwood, James, Dickens, Ghosts, Multiple Personality

Unknowns:
—How many writers follow this blog?
—How many professors of creative writing and literature follow this blog?
—How many psychologists follow this blog?
—How many readers of particular novelists follow this blog?
—How many students follow this blog?
—How many people are planning articles or books on Multiple Identity Literary Theory?
—How many people feel that “Multiple Identity Literary Theory” is just a new name for something that they already knew?
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