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, January 19, 2016

Since you cannot believe that multiple personality really exists, what is the use of reading the blog, Normal Novelists have-use-enjoy Multiple Personality?

If you, yourself, have never discovered unmistakable multiple personality in a person who, previously, had not even been suspected of having it, then you cannot really believe that multiple personality exists.

I know this about you, because that is the way I was before I, myself, discovered blatant multiple personality in people who had never been suspected of having it.

Fortunately, the more of this blog you read, the more you will come to understand what multiple personality looks like in the real world, with real people who have it, but who have never been suspected of having it.

And with this knowledge, you, yourself, will eventually discover it in someone. At first, it will amaze you, so that you will not entirely believe your own eyes, until at least the third time you find it. That was my experience.
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