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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Tuesday, October 16, 2018

“My Altered Self: How God’s Gift of Multiple Personality Disorder Redeemed my Nightmare Childhood” by Sue Liston

Sue Liston is a college graduate and a leader in Bible Study Fellowship. She has been happily married for more than fifty years, and has two lovely daughters and four grandchildren. But in the past, she had not been happy inside. 

After a number of ineffective exorcisms by several people, she asked the latest exorcist…

“Do you think you can help me?”

“Look…I’ve given your behavior a great deal of thought. What I saw and heard was clearly not you. But I think we’re dealing here with a split personality, not demons.

“How can you be so sure it wasn’t a demon?

“Well, another personality speaking through your mouth and controlling body movements could be a demon. But what you displayed spoke rationally, upholding and defending your position in life. Demons aren’t there to help us cope…They don’t dialogue or communicate…” (1, pp. 230-231).

Sue had wanted to be a Christian, but one of her alternate personalities (alters) had rejected Jesus. Treatment for multiple personality not only soothed the inner turmoil from her nightmare childhood, but helped her accept Jesus.

1. Sue Liston. My Altered Self: How God’s Gift of Multiple Personality Disorder Redeemed my Nightmare Childhood. El Cajon CA, SANL619 Publishing, 2017.
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