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, December 7, 2022

Donald Trump and Herschel Walker: Has any prior president ever befriended someone who has published a book proclaiming his own multiple personality? 


Former President Trump has often been alleged to have a mental illness; most often, narcissistic personality. Those allegations might be dismissed as politically motivated. But it may not be politically motivated when someone publishes a book proclaiming his own mental illness (1), and a former president befriends him and endorses his candidacy for the United States Senate. What accounts for it?


First, if multiple personality can turn up in such a situation, it reinforces the fact that it is not as rare as most people think. Second, the fact that neither The New York Times nor Democrats have pounced on this coincidence supports my opinion that the Times and most others are willingly ignorant about multiple personality.


I guess Herschel Walker would have to be elected President of the United States for The New York Times and others to pay attention.


1. Herschel Walker with Gary Brozek and Charlene Maxfield. Breaking Free: My Life with Dissociative Identity Disorder [multiple personality]. Foreword by Dr. Jerry Mungadze. New York, Touchstone/Howard Simon & Schuster, 2009. 

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