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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Friday, June 26, 2015

Multiple Personality: “Scientific Skeptics” Correctly Conclude That It Exists and is Genuine, But Without Objective Observation, They Are Not Scientific

In yesterday’s post, I discussed the state of skepticism regarding multiple personality disorder: Emotional Skeptics dismiss it for no good reason, while Scientific Skeptics now admit that it is genuine, but they are unhappy with that fact and are sore losers.

What the self-styled Scientific Skeptics don’t understand is that they are not scientific. Science requires that when something is observable, it must be observed (and that variables be varied and controlled). They can perform armchair “science” forever, but until they, themselves, have objectively screened and evaluated people for multiple personality—until they actually observe and study it—they are not scientists, even though they like to think they are.

Of course, these skeptics haven’t even begun to address what this blog is about: normal multiple personality. They never heard of it. I estimate that 90% of novelists have it, and guess that 30% of the general public does, too. But I think that this would make the “scientific” skeptics emotional.
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