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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Monday, October 10, 2016

Donald Trump’s Body Language in Second Debate: Why did he stand behind his chair? Was that an alternate personality, there to back him up?

At the beginning of the debate, Trump stood behind his chair, with his hands on the top of the back of the chair. It was a very unusual thing to do.

My first thought was that he was using the chair as a shield to protect himself against the expected onslaught of criticism for his recent boasting-sexual-predator video.

But cowering behind a chair is not typical body language for Donald Trump, whose behavior is usually aggressive, as was seen later in the debate, when it appeared to some that he was “stalking” Hillary Clinton around the stage.

So why was Trump standing behind his chair?

It was as if the chair was where his regular self was sitting, while an alternate personality was standing behind him, ready to back him up.
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