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, August 31, 2022

Former President Trump prides himself on being an Aggressive Winner like his Father, so why is his Hairstyle more like his Mother’s than his Father’s?

“Donald Trump looks in the mirror and sees…his mother. Or, at least, his mother’s hair. Any observer can instantly understand that Donald Trump’s hair doesn’t have to look the way it does—and wouldn’t, in fact, without great forethought and effort…Donald Trump’s hairstyle shares the same assertive disregard for both gravity and natural hair color with the style his mother wore…Why does Trump wear his hair so similar to the parent he felt didn’t understand him?” (1, pp. 25-26).


Since I haven’t finished reading this book, I reserve judgment.


Added later same day: I didn't find anything else that interested me. As to his hair, what I had noted in past posts was his changes in hair color, sometimes from day to day, suggestive of switches from one personality to another.


1. Justin A. Frank, MD. Trump on the Couch. New York, Avery/Penguin Random House, 2018.

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