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, January 15, 2017

American Psychological Association was founded by Morton Prince and others in opposition to parapsychology and in support of multiple personality.

“The American Society for Psychical Research was founded in 1884 in Boston, Massachusetts. Among other founding members were the psychologists G. Stanley Hall, James Mark Baldwin, Joseph Jastrow, and Christine Ladd-Franklin. Among the first vice Presidents were Hall, William James and the philosopher Josiah Royce. The mathematician Simon Newcomb was the first President. The early members of the society were skeptical of paranormal phenomena. Hall and Jastrow took a psychological approach to psychical phenomena. By 1890 they had resigned from the society. Hall and Jastrow became outspoken critics of parapsychology. Other early members from the society including Morton Prince and James Jackson Putnam left the ASPR in 1892 to form the American Psychological Association” (1).

Morton Prince (2) was known for his study of multiple personality. He is mostly remembered today for The Dissociation of a Personality, his book about Christine Beauchamp (3), a woman with multiple personality.

1. Wikipedia. American Society for Psychical Research. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/American_Society_for_Psychical_Research
2. Wikipedia. Morton Prince. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Morton_Prince
3. Wikipedia. Christine Beauchamp (pseudonym). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christine_Beauchamp_(pseudonym)
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