Thursday, May 18, 2023

“Wuthering Heights (post 2) by Emily Brontë: Catherine sees other faces in the mirror, a textbook symptom of multiple personality


“Don’t you see that face?” she enquired, gazing earnestly at the mirror.

“And say what I could, I was incapable of making her comprehend it to be her own…(1, p. 123).


Textbook: “MPD patients often report seeing themselves as different people when they look into a mirror” (2, p. 62).


1. Emily Brontë. Wuthering Heights [1847]. UK, Penguin Books 1995/2003.

2. Frank W. Putnam, MD. Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder. New York, The Guilford Press, 1989.

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