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, October 22, 2016

The Donald Trump Paradox: Very Intelligent, High-Functioning, and Successful, But Thought By Many, Even In His Own Party, To Be Crazy.

It was Donald Trump’s use of pseudonyms—which now has its own page in Wikipedia (1)—that first led me to mention him here. I have often discussed novelists’ use of pseudonyms as a symptom of their multiple personality (search “pseudonyms” and “pseudonym” in this blog).

Another recurrent topic in this blog has been the popular misconception that multiple personality is a psychosis. To borrow a phrase from Hamlet, there is a method to this (seeming) madness. Superficially, it might seem psychotic, but in the vast majority of cases, it is not. For past posts on this subject, search “madness,” “psychotic,” and “crazy” in this blog.

If Donald Trump had multiple personality, and it made him, superficially, appear crazy, then the confusion between multiple personality and madness might be called “the Donald Trump paradox.”

Of course, since I have never interviewed Donald Trump, I have no way of knowing whether he has multiple personality or not.

 1. Wikipedia. “Donald Trump pseudonyms.” https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donald_Trump_pseudonyms
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