The dissociation of a personality : a biographical study in abnormal psychology / by Morton Prince.
- Morton Prince
- Date:
- 1905
Licence: In copyright
Credit: The dissociation of a personality : a biographical study in abnormal psychology / by Morton Prince. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![“ I did not.” “That when you were awake you were a different person.” [Remonstrating and astounded.] “ Dr. Prince, I did not say so.” “ What did you say ? ” “ I did not say anything, I told you about my back and shoulders.” [Referring to an experiment tried to produce a blister by a suggestion given to the hypnotic self.] Repeated experiences of this kind made it plain that Miss Beauchamp when hypnotized fell into one or the other of two distinct mental states, or selves, whose relations to the primary waking consciousness, as well as their memories, were strikingly different. From the very first they claimed different relations with the waking Miss Beauchamp. The fii’st hypnotic self either definitely stated she was Miss Beauchamp asleep, or accepted that idea, as a technical expression, without objection; though she apparently rec- ognized the paradox conveyed in the idea of a sleeping person talking. Still she regarded herself most distinctly as Miss Beauchamp, though not awake. For the sake of convenience at this early stage, to distinguish the different selves, this hypnotic self was noted as B II, in distinction from the waking Miss Beauchamp, who was now labelled for the first time B I. In contrast with this attitude of B II, the second hypnotic self, who was correspondingly named B III, refused from the very first to accept the idea of being asleep or being Miss Beauchamp asleep. She in- sisted she was wide awake, and resented in a way foreign to either B I or B II every attempt on my part to make her appear illogical in claiming to be a different person. It may be well to repeat that B I’s name was Christine. Desiring to have some distinctive term of address for B III, I gave her the name of Chris, Later, of her own](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28111850_0045.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
