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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Friday, June 14, 2019


“The Ultimate Guide to Global Reading Habits” says the people of India read more hours per week than the people of any other nation in the world

On many days, the largest number of visitors here comes from India, and I have been curious to know why. The Indian-American psychiatrists I have known were not unusually interested in multiple personality. And I am not aware of any great interest in multiple personality in India.

But I just came upon the fact that the people of India spend more hours per week reading than the people of any other nation in the world (1). That fact, together with India’s large population, must be part of the reason for the large number of visits from India. I hope the reason is not just statistical.

On another note, as I’ve commented previously, I have always been puzzled by the very few visits here from the UK, considering that so many of the writers I have discussed have been from there. But recently, I have been pleased to see some regular visits from the UK. Indeed, in the last 24 hours, the most visited post—perhaps visited from the UK, but I have no way of knowing for sure—has been a 2017 post from my series on The Lord of the Rings by J. R. R. Tolkien.

“The Ultimate Guide to Global Reading Habits” (1) is from the website of a commercial firm with which I am not familiar, but the information they compiled on reading habits might interest some readers here.

1. Global English Editing. “The Ultimate Guide to Global Reading Habits.” https://geediting.com/world-reading-habits/
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