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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Wednesday, July 12, 2017

President Trump and Collusion: (If he has a normal version of multiple personality) Which of his personalities know, and when did they know it?

In occasional past posts, I have speculated that President Trump has a normal version of multiple personality (normal to the extent that it does not cause him distress or dysfunction).

These speculations were prompted by his past use pseudonyms (the names of alternate personalities?), various public personas (various personalities incognito?), childlike behavior (child-aged alternate personalities?), a peculiar pattern of lying, and third-person self-reference. Most of these behaviors have been repeatedly discussed by New York Times columnists, but without reference to multiple personality, per se.

The title of this post is a play on the famous Watergate question, “What did he know, and when did he know it?” For a person with multiple personality, the question might be: “Which personalities knew, and when did they know it?” or, more concisely, “Who knew?”
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