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

  • Morton Prince
Date:
1905
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Credit: The dissociation of a personality : a biographical study in abnormal psychology / by Morton Prince. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    I don’t think they ’re properly mixed, for you don’t get a new one, as you thought you would. It’s only B I with IV’s memories or IV with B I’s memories. It is, really. Can’t you see it? I should think you could, from their letters and manner. “That old journal they ’re so proud of is the funniest thing — it does n’t go so , as it should, but so ./ ~~ And sometimes it’s backwards, and sometimes it’s wrong,— upside down, you know. I could improve it immensely and make it heaps more interesting if I were to revise it. Would you? It would be great fun. “ I didn’t want her (It, B I, or IV) to write you that letter last night, but she was determined to do it. “ I think that when you try to put them together that after- ward if it’s B I in the beginning she’s stronger, and if it’s IV in the beginning she’s weaker. Ordinarily I could have made B I dead and confiscated the old letter; or I could have writ- ten IV and she would have destroyed it herself. You spoiled all that, you see, so, ‘ you must take the eonsequences; ’ as you say to me always. “We are friends again, aren’t we, Dr. Prince, for I brought B I back to you? I’m going to be perfectly angelic now, but you must suggest things [to do]. “Sally.” November 30, 1900, one of the new selves had written an analysis of her mental attitude as IV with fused memo- ries. The latter part of this was made illegible by Sally, who enclosed the following: “ I won’t have any more psychological papers in this family t So! “You could keep me if you wanted to! You want me all squeezed again! ” The following incoherent letter illustrates the rattling of B I’s mind as a result of her many trials. It is one of many such: “ If you can come to me morning that you will, so to trouble you. “ Sincerely,”