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.

— Each time you visit, search "name index" or "subject index," choose another name or subject, and search it.

— If you read only recent posts, you miss most of what this site has to offer.

— Share site with friends.

Sunday, May 22, 2016

Third Anniversary of “Novelists have Normal Version of Multiple Personality”: Seven reasons this literary-psychiatric blog is not, yet is, popular.

1. Title: a third of people think “Who cares?”; a third think “Everyone already knows that”; a third think “Multiple personality is a plot gimmick and doesn’t really exist” (It does exist, more commonly than you think).

2. M.D.: This guy must be a psychiatrist (true) and he is going to give a psychoanalytic view. (On the contrary, I reject the Freudian view.) In any case, this psychiatrist is neither a novelist nor a professor, so he is not one of us. (True. I think outside the box, because I am from outside the box.)

3. Smartphone visitors: They don’t have a search dialog box and a larger screen, which are needed to fully enjoy this blog.

4. Referrals: The main way for a blog to get more visitors is to get referrals from famous people or popular blogs, which may never happen here.

5. Content: To appreciate the posts in this blog, you need some knowledge of both literature and multiple personality, and very few people have that combination. Fortunately, you can learn everything you need to know from the blog itself, if you read it from its beginning, or search names and subjects found in its indexes. Unfortunately, relatively few people are willing to do that.

6. On the positive side, this blog continues to have visitors from many countries, including Brazil, China, Colombia, Egypt, France, Germany, India, Ireland, Israel, Pakistan, Philippines, Portugal, Russia, South Africa, Thailand, Turkey, Ukraine, United Arab Emirates, UK, USA, Vietnam.

7. There have been more than six hundred posts. I don’t know why “Ernest Hemingway’s Twenty Nicknames” has had the most visits. Second most visited is Doris Lessing’s “To Room Nineteen.” Other popular posts have included the first one, “Dickens, Multiple Personality, and Writers”; Henry James’s “The Ambassadors”; Gillian Flynn’s “Gone Girl”; Debbie Nathan’s “Sybil Exposed”; Gabriel Garcia Marquez’s “Dialogue with the Mirror”; and “A Streetcar Named Desire” by Tennessee Williams.
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