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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