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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Tuesday, July 8, 2014

Subject Index
Choose subject and search it.
Abusive husband
Marital abuse
Acting
Transformative Acting
Acting, Theory of
Actors
Afraid of you
Alcohol abuse
Alcoholic blackout
Alcoholism
Allegorical Multiple Personality
Alter
Altered state of consciousness
Alter ego
Altered identity
Alternate personality
Alternate personalities
Alternate personalities as spies
Alternate personalities not necessarily villains
Alternative facts
Alternative realities
Always vs. Never
American Journal of Psychiatry
American Psychological Association
Amnesia
Animal alter
Anniversary
Anorexia Nervosa
Anxiety
Apology
Argue
Argues with himself
Arguing
Argument
Art of the novel
Artificial intelligence
Atheism
Attractiveness
Author Attribution
Authors
Author's Mind
Authorial intent
Authoritative
Autofiction
Autohypnosis
Bad names
Beside oneself
Bible
Bipolar disorder
Bisexuality
Bisexuality, Parallel
Bisexuality, Serial
Blackouts
Blindness
Blog is brilliant
Blog mystery
Blog's Tenth Anniversary
Booker Prize
Sympathy for Book Reviewers
Brain
Burying the lead
CAP, Character Alternate Personality
Caution
CHALLENGE
Chameleon
Chapters, Non-Sequential
Character-Driven
Character impersonators
Character listeners
Characters
Characters suddenly appear
Child-aged alternate personality
Child alter
Childhood trauma
Childlike
Christmas carol
Clues
Clueless
Co-consciousness
Cognitive psychology
Combat trauma
Comments
Comorbidity
Con man
Confidence man
Confusion [as hypnosis or literary technique]
Contact their characters
Conscience
Conscious/unconscious
Conspiracies
Conventional wisdom
Cryptomnesia
Multiple consciousness
Multiple dissociated consciousness
Controversy, Controversial
Crazy
Crazy Joke
Creative artist
Creative process
Creativity
Credentials
Credibility
Criticism, expressive
Dangers in interviewing
Daemon
Death, reversible
Debunk
Deception
Denial
Depersonalization
Diagnosis
Intuitive Diagnosis
Diagnostic Criteria
Diagnostic Fads
Diagnostic Manual Misleads
Diaries
Dictionaries of Literary Terms
Difficult to understand
Traits vs. Disorders
Puzzling disorientation
Dissimulation
Dissociation
Dissociative Experience Checklists
Dissociative fugue
Dissociative identity
Dissociative identity, history of
Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID)
Dissociative Identity Trait (DIT)
Diversity
Dividedness
Do fiction writers have alternate personalities?
Do novelists think they are crazy?
Donald Trump Paradox
Don't believe in the diagnosis
Doppelganger
Double
Double consciousness
Double-minded
Double nature
Doublethink
Dreams
Drugs
DSM-5
Dual Consciousness
Dual Personality
Eidolon
ego alien
egodystonic
egosyntonic
Empathy
Engaging
Entangling
Epilepsy
Erotomania
Everyday Life
Euphemisms (for multiple personality)
Existentialism
Expertise
Expert Opinion
Expressive Criticism
Expressive Theory
Eyebrows (fashion and psychology)
Eye-roll (related to hypnosis)
Eye-rolling
Facing reality
Fact-check
Failure to diagnose
Familiar
Famous people
Fantasy proneness
Fantasy world
Fear
Feel normal
Fiction writers
Do fiction writers have alternate personalities?
Fictional universe
Fill the tank
First and middle names
First-person plural self-reference (Nosism)
Flagrant Lies
Folklore
Forensic Graphology
Frankenstein
Free will
Freud tricked you
From India to the Planet Mars
Fugues
Dissociative fugue
Gender identity
Genius
Ghost
Give the author credit for insight
Girl, Interrupted
Glossary
Graphology
Gratuitous multiple personality
Greek Chorus
Guardian angel
Guide
Gurdjieffian
Visual hallucinations
Hallucination
Hamlet
Handwriting
Hearing voices
Hearing Voices Movement
Heathcliff's Eyebrows
Hedgehog and Fox
He heard himself say
Hero of opposite sex
High-functioning multiple personality
History of multiple personality (dissociative identity)
Hoax
Host personality
Host personality facade
How to write a novel
How can multiple personality be like a novel?
Human nature
Humpty Dumpty
Hypocrites
Hypnosis
Hypnosis induction technique
Altered Identity
Illeism (third-person self-reference)
Illusion of independent agency
Imaginary companions
Imaginary identities
Imaginary playmates
Imagination
Imaginations
Impersonation
Impostor
Impostor Syndrome
Incompetent
Inner Child
Inner Critic
Inner self
Inner Reading Voices (IRVs)
Intended meaning
Interdisciplinarity
Intrapersonal communication
Inner voices
Internal dialogue
Internal homicide
Interviewing novelists
Interviewing voices
Interviews
Interviewing
Intriguing
Intuitive Diagnosis
Iowa Writers' Workshop
ISSTD
Italicized
Italics
Italicized Voices
ITALICS
Jane Eyre
Jesus Cures Legion
Joan of Arc
Joke
Journals
Laura
Judging novels
Juvenilia
King's College London
Legion
Lensa AI app
Literary critics
Literary criticism
Literary fiction
Literary movements
Literary novel
Literary review standards
Literary prizes
Lolita
Losing time
Loud Thoughts
"Madame Bovary, c'est moi"
Madness
The Madwoman in the Attic
Made actions
Made behavior
Magical realism
Malingering
The Maltese Falcon
The Mapping Memoir
Marital abuse
Mark 5:1-20
Marriage
Meaningless quirk of memory
Mediumship
Memoir
Memory
Memory in multiple personality has advantages
Involuntary memory
Memory gap
Mental disorder
Mental retardation
Mental Status Examination (MSE)
Mentally Well
Metafiction
Metamorphosis
The Metamorphosis
Metaphors
Method acting
Mind's Eye
Minds of their own
Mirror
Misdiagnosis
Model of Mind
Modern Art and Literature
Monotheism
More real than real
Morphine
Mrs. March
Multi-gender compromise
Multi-imagination
Multimagination
Multiperspectivity
Multiple Identities
Multiple Identity Literary Theory
Multiple Identity Theory
Multiple imagination
Multiple names
Multiple narrators
Multiple Personality Order
Multiple Personality May Run in Families
Multiple personality, definition of
Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD)
Multiple Personality, First-Half
Multiple personality, gratuitous
Multiple personality, history of
Multiple personality idiosyncrasy
Multiple personality is not crazy
Multiple personality myths
Multiple personality, Seven faces of
Multiple personality synonyms
Multiple Personality Trait (MPT)
Multiple personality, two keys to diagnosis
Multiple personality, unacknowledged
Multiple personality, unintentional
Multiple points of view
Multiple reality
Multiple voices
Multiplex narrative structure
Multiplicity, three degrees of
Murderers
Muse
Mutism
Mystery
Mutism
Mythology
Mythopoetic
Myths
Myth about Multiple Personality
Nameless
Nameless narrator
Namelessness
Names, Tricky
Narrative Multiple Personality
Narrative Structure
Narrative Time Travel
NAP, Narrator Alternate Personality
Narrator, Plural
Narrator, Unreliable
Narrators, Multiple
Narrators, Multiple Capricious
Neurological
Neglect
New York Times
Nobel Novelist
Nobel Prize
Noise
Nonbinary
Non-binary gender
Nonfiction books
"Normal" is obsolete
Nosism (first-person plural self-reference)
Not crazy
The novelist as voice hearer
Novelists
Novelists tell the truth
Novels autobiographical
Novels, judging
Novels of ideas
Novels, meaning of
Objective documentation
O.C.D.
Octopus
The Odyssey
Oedipus the King
One Hundred Years of Solitude
Survey of 181 Writers
Opinion Poll
Opioid
Original personality
Out-of-character behavior
Paracosm
Parentification
Parents of novelists
Parts
Pathognomonic
Pen name, pseudonyms
Persecutor personalities
Persona, personae
Personal appearance
Personal identity
Pessoa Syndrome
Phantoms
Philosophical fiction
Photographs
Photographer
Plagiarism
Plot-driven
Plural narrator
point of view
Politicians
Polytheism
Popular psychology
Possession (being possessed)
Pretentiousness
Prevalence
Profound or childlike
Prolific writers
Proof
Prostitution
Pseudonyms
Psychedelics
Psychiatry residency training programs
Psychoanalysis
Psychoanalytic Literary Theory
Psychology, Cognitive
Psychological depth
Psychopathy
Psychosis
PTSD (posttraumatic stress disorder)
Publishers
Puppets (a type of fictional character)
Puzzling people
Puzzling politicians
Qualified to make a Psychiatric Diagnosis?
Qualified to Interpret Literature?
Questions
Quirk of memory
Racism
Rarity
Rashomon
"Reacher said nothing"
Readers
Readers, avid
Reading comprehension
Reading fiction
Reading habits, global
Reading process
Rebranding
Resurrection
Reversible death
Round character
Rumpelstiltskin
Scapegoats
Scattered
Schizophrenia
Screen [for multiple personality]
Secretiveness
Seizure
Seizure-like
Selective mutism
Self-blurbing
Self-contradictory
Self-cutting
Self-harm
Self-hypnosis
Self-mutilation
Selves, Multiple
Seven faces of multiple personality
Sex ratio
Sexual orientation
Sexual Stereotyping
Shakespeare
Shapeshifting
Shocking
Singers
Singular they
Sitting duck syndrome
Six Myths
You should be skeptical
Skepticism
Skeptics
Slavery
Sleep
Sleepwalking
Sleepwalking scene [Macbeth]
Committee of sleep
Snow White
Somnambulism
Sociopath
Sorcerer's Apprentice
Speculative Fiction
Spells, Spellbound
Spirit possession
Split identities
Split Inconsistent Narrative
Statue
STIGMA
Story of O
Story-telling
Study of Fifty Writers
Stunt Fiction
Stylometry
Subcreation
Subjectively Experienced Metaphors
Submit essays
Subpersonality
Superior novelists
Suicide
Surprisingly common
Survey of 181 Writers
Sybil
Sybil Exposed
Synesthesia
Synesthetes
Synonyms [of multiple personality]
Switch (personalities)
Switching
Talents [childhood]
Talking to yourself
Telepathy
Temporary benefits
Ten Commandments
Theme of the double
Theme of the multiple
Theory, expressive
Theory, multiple identity literary
The spread
They think, therefore they are
Third-person self-reference (Illeism)
Three things [novelists do]
Loud Thoughts
Times Book Review
Time Travel
Traits vs. Disorders
Trance
Transformation
Transformative acting
Transgender
Transgender health
Transsexualism
Trauma, childhood
Trickster
Tricky names
The Trinity
True vs. Useful
TRUTH MAY BE STRANGER THAN FICTION
Twins
Twitter
Identical Twins
Two-Headed Writers
Uber
Unacknowledged multiple personality
Unlabelled multiple personality scenario
Uncanny
The unconscious
Unconscious content
Conscious/unconscious
Unreadable
Unreliable
Unreliability
Unreliable narrator
Vampirism
The Varieties of Religious Experience
Ventriloquism
Video game
Visitation Dream
Visions
Visitors
Visitors' Fearful Silence
Visual hallucinations
Voice in your head
Voice hearer
Voice, literary
Voice, writer’s
Voices, interviewing
Italicized Voices
Voices, Living with
Waking-dreams
Wall Street Journal
Warning to psychiatrists and psychologists
What are your reasons for visiting this site?
What does a person with multiple personality look like?
Where I’m coming from
Who’s Writing This?
Window of Diagnosability
The Winner
Wisdom
Witness Protection
Worldbuilding
Writers
Writer’s block
Writer's "madness"
The Writer’s Chronicle

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