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— 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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Thursday, August 27, 2020

One reason for Donald Trump’s charisma is that his body language and speech are more variable and complex than that of most people, possibly representing alternate personalities

In multiple personality, each alternate personality has its own body language, which is one reason that observers can get the weird feeling that they are meeting more than one person. Of course, there is only one person, but each of the various alternate personalities has its own characteristic speech pattern and body language.

When I googled “trump body language,” I immediately got many links, including the following:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TY6geO8FGZY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FtC8vIpYSmM 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PXePe2XHBJE 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZrrHwj0P0iU 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-GGVwd58sZI 
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XhT9f6ME33Y

If you compare Trump’s body language with that of most other politicians, or with TV news anchors, or practically anyone else, the main difference is that most other people, like Joe Biden, are almost always boringly the same as themselves; whereas, Trump has an interesting assortment of facial expressions and mannerisms. But people discussing Trump’s body language don’t mention this variety and complexity. They miss the forest for the trees.

I suggest that Trump’s body language be analyzed in the same way that the text of the Bible has been. The scholarly consensus, based on analysis of the text, is that the Bible had about 35 different writers: https://overviewbible.com/authors-who-wrote-bible/.

I suspect that if Trump’s body language were analyzed like the Bible text has been, they would find various subsets of his mannerisms that, in effect, represent the body languages of a number of different personalities.

If someone could write an application that did this kind of analysis of body language, it might be a new way to diagnose multiple personality.
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