The dissociation of a personality : a biographical study in abnormal psychology / by Morton Prince.
- Morton Prince
- Date:
- 1908
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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![she was alone by herself. So, with the aid of a little ether and suggestion, she was again put into hypnosis, and changed to II, who was told to awaken with all her memories. The person who appeared before me this time was neither B I nor B IV, but seemed a harmonious combina- tion of the two. She had all the appearance, at least, of being the person for whom we had so long been hunting. Immediately after this experiment the following letter, written on her return home, was received from Sally: [From Sally, Jan. 8, 1902.] “How could you! She is put together, and now I know all her thoughts 1 as I used to. Are you glad, really ? . . . She has written you too — another letter — but I wish to keep it until to-morrow. Please be nice to me. “C. L. B. “ Wednesday — I did not want you to talk.” It remained to put the alleged Real Miss Beauchamp to the test. Responding to a summons (Jan. 10) the new personality was put through an exhaustive examination to test her character and memory: “Miss Beauchamp,” my notes read, “seems completely put together. She is neither B I.nor B IV. She herself is unable to say which she is, but remarks simply that she does n’t know. In manner and attitude of mind she is natural, simple, amiable, ready to give all the information desired, and to aid in every way in her power, excepting, for obvious reasons, she does not wish to give up B IVs autobiography. [B IV had been writ- ing an autobiography to contradict some of Sally’s statements.] She recognizes, she explains, the absurdity of the point of view from which as IV she wrote it, and seems to be somewhat ashamed of it, for now everything appears in a different light. “ Testing her memory for the past and present I find that, with the exception of the periods when Sally has been in existence, 1 Referring to the fact that when the fusion was not complete (Chapter XXIV) and the resulting personality a modified IV (the “New IV”) as had of late been generally the case, Sally did not know her thoughts.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28047849_0530.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
