“Der Doppelgänger”: Art Imitates Multiple Personality

“In Schubert’s song 'Der Doppelgänger,' a piano resounds with increasingly tormented chords as the narrator recounts a realization: that a pained stranger, wringing his hands in the night, is in fact himself” (1).

1. New York Times. https://www.nytimes.com/2023/09/20/arts/music/doppelganger-armory-jonas-kaufmann-claus-guth.html

“MPD patients…frequently have the experience of waking up in the morning and finding evidence that they were busy during the night, although they do not remember anything. They may find notes, poems…or other evidence that they have been up and busy” (2, p. 81).

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