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, October 2, 2016

Multiple Identity Theory—the idea that 90% of novelists and 30% of the public have a normal version of multiple personality—is doubted for four reasons.

This blog, which is about Multiple Identity Literary Theory—or, more generally, Multiple Identity Theory—has been visited by thousands of people from more than fifty countries, but few of them take it seriously. I can think of four reasons:

First, it is hard to believe that multiple personality even exists if you, yourself, have never, at least knowingly, seen it. I, myself, a psychiatrist, was very skeptical before making the diagnosis and seeing it with my own eyes.

Second, most people don’t know what undiagnosed multiple personality normally looks like, with its alternate personalities hidden inside the person and/or coming out in private and/or coming out in public, but incognito.

Third, most of the evidence discussed in this blog is literary, but I don’t have a literary degree, and my views are not published in either regular book form or literary journals.

Fourth, Multiple Identity Theory would mean a change in everyone’s view of human nature, a change that just seems too big to not have been known about previously (at least in these terms).

If you would like to comment on the above reasons or add more, please do.

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