My Life As a Dissociated Personality

by Morton Prince, B C A

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Genres: Nonfiction

58 pages, Hardcover

First published January 1, 1909

Reviews

[Bri Fidelity]

Dissociation of a Personality's precocious baby sister: interesting, charming, and - comprising just two not-very-lengthy articles from 'The Journal of Abnormal Psychology' - terribly, terribly short.

While I'm almost positive 'B.C.A' represents an iatrogenic case of multiplicity - Our Heroine experiences none of the typical amnestic blanks you'd expect as she alternates between her two 'selves' until Dr. Prince starts using hypnosis to treat her, and she uses a great deal of Prince's own psychiatric jargon to describe her condition later - she does seem to be fairly far along on her own before her therapy, and her summation of the experience raises all sorts of possibilities as to how dual personality might form and progress, as it were, In The Wild.

I wonder if there were other, later, articles on the 'B.C.A' case?

[Micah]

Read this a few months ago in PDF form, it was really interesting. Not sure when I precisely read it, so I'll set it to today's date.