Search 3,000 posts on 300 writers (35 Nobel Prize). On laptop or desktop, search "Name Index" or "Subject Index" PERSONS WITH MULTIPLE PERSONALITY TRAIT ARE NOT MENTALLY ILL © 2013-2025 Kenneth A. Nakdimen, MD
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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MPD Textbooks: — Frank W. Putnam, MD. Diagnosis and Treatment of Multiple Personality Disorder (MPD) (a.k.a. Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID), New York, The Guilford Press, 1989. —James G. Friesen, PhD. Uncovering the Mystery of MPD, (includes discussion of demonic possession) Eugene, Oregon, Wipf and Stock Publishers,1997.Monday, September 30, 2019
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Mantel says, “I am waiting to change into a boy. When I am four this will occur” (1, p. 41)
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Added Sept. 19: On rereading the above, I cannot be sure whether Lady Macbeth #2 was addressing herself or her husband. If the latter, then there may be no second Lady Macbeth personality. She may have been having a fantasized conversation with her husband (or a second personality representing her husband). Lines 62-64 and 66-68 certainly do appear to be two personalities interacting. And although the Doctor refers to her as walking in her sleep, he has not tried to engage her in conversation, so how can he distinguish between sleepwalking and her being awake, but preoccupied in a fantasy, multiple personality, conversation?
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Indeed, such writing has even affected journalism, where “burying the lead” used to be a sin, but is now the fashion.