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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Saturday, September 17, 2016

Donald Trump now says he believes President Obama was born in the USA: Has Trump changed his mind or is a different personality speaking?

Since it is a well-known fact that President Obama was born in the USA, most people have assumed that Donald Trump always knew it, but had only pretended to believe otherwise, because of racism and/or political advantage.

But that assumption entails the further assumption that Trump is an excellent actor, because he couldn’t have been a leading “birther” if other birthers had sensed he was insincere. So if Trump is not an excellent actor, then he must have sincerely believed what he had said.

My hypothesis is that Trump both believes and disbelieves that Obama was born in the USA, and that he takes one or the other position depending on which of his personalities is speaking. For I still have not heard a better explanation than multiple personality for his pseudonyms, hair color changes, unpredictability, questionable memory, and self-contradictions.

Would Donald Trump be our first multiple personality president? I don’t know, since I have not studied presidents. All I know is that multiple personality has not stopped novelists from winning the Nobel Prize in Literature.
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