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, August 14, 2022

Herschel Walker (post 4): American football star, who has claimed longterm friendship with former President Trump and multiple personality since childhood


Originally, since they are not fiction writers, neither Trump nor Walker were of interest here. Trump became of interest only because he’d used pseudonyms, and the frequent accusations against him of lying, both of which are occasionally clues to multiple personality. Search “pseudonyms” and “lying" for relevant past posts.


The reason I did not read Walker’s memoir about his having multiple personality back when it was first published is that this blog is about discovering multiple personality, not verifying it. And I have only recently broadened my scope to famous people, and not just famous fiction writers (which is the easiest group for me to study, because of its high proportion of multiple personality and the availability of published writing).

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