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, July 17, 2016

Multiple Personality?: “The Citrusy Mystery of Trump’s Hair” by Frank Bruni in New York Times says Trump’s hair color changes indicate “who he wants to be”

In addition to Donald Trump’s alleged past use of pseudonymous identities, he has undeniable, frequent changes in hair color:

“The evolution of Trump’s coiffure over the decades has been widely noted and thoroughly documented. He has parted his hair on one side and then the other. He has combed it forward, swept it backward…But less frequently observed is how much its hue changes, and I don’t mean from one year to another. I mean from one day to the next…Trump’s hair…signifies how he feels — and who he wants to be — at any given instant.”

Mr. Bruni conceives of Trump’s hair as “his mood ring.” It could also indicate switches from one personality to another. Without knowing Trump’s subjective experience, either interpretation is unproven speculation.

This is not to say that a person with multiple personality could not be a good president.
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