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, March 15, 2020

“How to Be Calm About Anxiety” by Laura Turner: Is her approach “Acceptance and Commitment Therapy” or multiple personality?

“Anxiety has been my constant companion for as long as I can remember…”

And Laura had always fought her fear and anxiety.

“…but it turns out that befriending my fear has actually caused its voice to soften.

“I’ve started to call my anxiety Susan. She goes pretty much everywhere with me, and while she means very well, she’s simply too loud and too concerned about everything. So I tell her thanks for looking out for me, and then try to go about my day knowing that she’ll continue to pop up, and that I don’t need to walk her out of my cubicle anymore. She can stay…

“Now, whenever Susan knocks at my door, I let her in and invite her to sit down. I tell her to stay a while. She’s welcome here” (1).

1. Laura Turner. “How to Be Calm About Anxiety.” The New York Times, Sunday Review, March 15, 2020.  https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/12/opinion/sunday/anxiety-treatment-therapy.html
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