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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Sunday, March 8, 2015

Family Members May Not Mention That They Have Seen Multiple Personality, Because They Assume That the Doctors and Therapists Already Know About It

Although friends and family often don’t know that a novelist (or other loved one) has multiple personality, sometimes they do know, but they don’t tell the doctor or therapist. Why?

There are at least seven possible reasons. First, they may mistakenly assume that the multiple personality is obvious to the doctor or therapist. Second, they may mistakenly assume that the doctor’s diagnosis—e.g., bipolar—includes the multiple personality. (Bipolar does not include multiple personality). Third, they may think of multiple personality as a common, minor, personal quirk that is not worth mentioning. Fourth, they may think of the multiple personality as too crazy and embarrassing to talk about. Fifth, they may think that the doctor or therapist would not be interested in multiple personality. Sixth, they may not be sure about the multiple personality. Seventh, they may have been told not to “interfere” with the treatment.
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