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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![APPENDIX F Sally’s account of the method by which, as she main- tained, she subconsciously interfered with IV’s vision, is as follows. The credibility of such accounts, of course, must be weighed in connection with all the other subcon- scious phenomena observed. The facts were that IV had taken a tumbler and using it as a “ crystal ” to obtain a vision of her stay in the private hospital, had seen the wrong room and Dr. S., who once had attended Sally and B I in another hospital; but he was unknown to IV, as this was before her advent. “ Sally was curious, as she always is, to know what B IV was going to do next. It took but a moment to jump to the conclusion that what B IV wanted to find out was what hap- pened in the private hospital where she had been as B I. This intention was easily guessed from the fact that B IV had just been writing something about her stay there, and incautiously gave herself away by interrupting her writing to look into the glass. So Sally proceeded to muddle her up. ‘ She had been trying to get you [in a vision],’ said Sally, ‘ so as to learn about you ; she got the hospital, but I made her see the wrong room. She ‘fixed’her mind and I ‘fixed’ mine. I thought very hard about the front square room [Miss B.’s was a small back one] and I thought Dr. S. would look well in it instead of you. So I thought of him as I saw him in the . . . Hospital. No, I didn’t think about his position in the room, or place him in any particular relation; I thought of the room as it looked on a particular morning, in a general way, but not that the bed was here and the chairs there, but I thought of Dr. S. and the room together. B IV saw Dr. S. in the wrong room. She did n’t see it as in a vision, but she saw the picture of the room projected against the wall of her own room, and saw both at the same time, so that the picture was n’t vivid as in a vision, but shadowy; but she saw the features of Dr. S. She doesn’t](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28047849_0550.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
