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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Saturday, October 10, 2020

Ask each personality its age, because they often see themselves as being a specific age, different from the person's actual age, ranging from very young to senior

In the two quotes below, it would appear that two different alternate personalities are speaking:


The New York Times

Sat., Oct. 10, 2020, Print Edition

TO THE EDITOR:

    If the cabinet ever needed concrete evidence that President Trump has completely lost touch with reality and that the 25th Amendment needs to be invoked immediately, Mr. Trump provided it on Thursday when he said, “I’m back because I’m a perfect physical specimen and I’m extremely young.”

    He later released a video in which he stated: “I’m a senior. I know you don’t know that. Nobody knows that.”

    I know that the cabinet will not exercise its clear responsibility in this matter. This man is not mentally stable, in my humble nonprofessional opinion, and these comments are far beyond amusing or mildly disturbing.

BILL GOTTDENKER
MOUNTAINSIDE, N.J.


Added 8:36 p.m.: If it were indeed true that Mr. Trump had multiple personality, then his reputation for watching a lot of television might be explained by his need to see what had been said and done, since his television-watching personality might have memory gaps to fill in. But all this is speculative. I would have to interview him about these things to know what is really going on.

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