The dissociation of a personality : a biographical study in abnormal psychology / by Morton Prince.

  • Morton Prince
Date:
1905
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    way to explain: says she can’t go on; her mind won’t work; she can’t explain now; will write it later at home. In answer to questions, shakes her head, and puts her finger to her lips; does n’t feel as if any one were stopping her, but can’t explain; begins to stutter, and exhibits great difficulty in talking; be- comes angry, saying ‘ I will talk, and I won’t stutter.’ ‘ I never st-st-stuttered b-b-before in my life t-t-till lately, and only occasionally now. I th-th-think it is p-p-perfectly horrid.’ [Here she becomes absolutely dumb.] I urge her to write. She takes the pen, but cannot. Then she bursts out angrily, ‘ I won’t be controlled! ’ Then presently, ‘ I can’t go on now. It makes me nervous, — this sort of thing. It makes me so angry. It is the same way when I want to do things — not to be able to do or think [makes me feel this way].’ Finally, after a moment’s silence, she begins to speak, with a sort of explosion of will force, stuttering, and speaking all in a breath, as if bound to speak in spite of some kind of control. After a successful effort she exelaims, ‘There, I will tell you if I want to! ’ (This with vehemence, as if she had conquered some one.) ” APPENDIX K ally’s account of events of Thursday, March 6, 1902, )0 the time of Prince Henry’s visit to Boston: “ If you won’t let me do anything and B IV or V sticks to her good resolutions there won’t be any sort of a record for you — not any sort of an interesting one. It will be like this — “ One o’clock, BI eats; two o’clock, II sleeps; three o’clock, III opens her eyes (me, you know); IV comes at four o’clock, and V, at five. You see how stupid that all is. J. is n’t in it, or Anna; nobody nice but you. “ Yesterday’s record: II would n’t wake up when the soldiers came, so I had to rub my eyes a long while to come myself. I wanted to see them and it was almost seven o’clock, quite time to get up, was n’t it? You are n’t cross about that — Then after my bath and breakfast I started for your house, but IV came