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 17, 2019

Female Pseudonym of President Donald Trump: Persons with multiple personality often have both male and female alternate personalities

Since the last time I checked the Wikipedia entry, “Pseudonyms of Donald Trump” (1), it has added a female pseudonym, "Carolin Gallego,” which he used in a 1992 letter to New York Magazine:

“Based on the fact that I work for Donald Trump as his secretary — and therefore know him well — I think he treats women with great respect, contrary to what Julie Baumgold implied in her article … I do not believe any man in America gets more calls from women wanting to see him, meet him, or go out with him. The most beautiful women, the most successful women — all women love Donald Trump.—Carolin Gallego, December 7, 1992” (2).

I do not have the information I would need to diagnose multiple personality, but his use of pseudonyms raises the issue.

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pseudonyms_of_Donald_Trump 
2. http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2017/10/read-letters-to-new-york-from-spike-lee-and-donald-trump.html

 Added later July 17: Trump's hair is not naturally blond. Who chooses to do that? Carolin?
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