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, September 30, 2018

Science essay in today’s New York Times adds evidence that diagnoses of Schizophrenia and Bipolar are more controversial than Multiple Personality

It is silly when articles about multiple personality begin by saying it is psychiatry’s most controversial diagnosis. Multiple personality has been known for thousands of years, and is controversial only with people who have never made the diagnosis.

Diagnoses of schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are less specific. For example, an unknown number of people who are given these diagnoses may actually have disorders of the immune system:

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/opinion/sunday/schizophrenia-psychiatric-disorders-immune-system.html

This is not to say that schizophrenia and bipolar disorder are invalid diagnoses or should not be treated. I have made these diagnoses many times and employed standard treatments.

But I have also diagnosed multiple personality, and I know it is a more specific condition.
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