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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Wednesday, October 7, 2015

Memory gaps: You assume that you have never known anyone who has multiple personality, but you never ask about memory gaps, the way to find out.

There are two kinds of people in this world: those who think they have never met a person who has multiple personality, and those who casually ask people if they ever have “memory gaps” or “lose time.”

Although there are some people with multiple personality who know it, but don’t want you to know it, and who won’t admit their memory gaps, most people with multiple personality don’t know the significance of their memory gaps, assume that everyone probably has them, and will acknowledge them if you ask casually.

When a person acknowledges memory gaps, it is often wise to drop the subject for the time being. If they want to discuss the significance of their memory gaps, let them bring it up. Some people with multiple personality are happy to finally find someone who is interested. Other people with multiple personality don’t want to know.

For further discussion of memory gaps, search it in this blog.
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