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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![[From IV.] “ Sally has said so much of your disliking to receive letters that I hardly dare venture to write you. Yet there are certain things which must be explained, if possible. I did not intend yesterday to express the slightest doubt re- garding Dr. P t’s ability. It was only that I felt, and still feel, the utter hopelessness of attempting to treat the trouble with pills and powders. I know that I have brought it all on myself, aud that you consider me greatly to blame for the complications of the past year. But I did not understand until a few weeks ago what these complications might lead to, and how very serious the matter really was. . . . How can I explain such things to Dr. P 1, to any one? Dr. H should never have known had I not believed, in my pride, that I could end it all immediately. I am wiser now. I bow to Sally unless you help me, and, as B IV, I cannot hope for that. . . [P. S. by Sally.] “ Dear Dr. Prince : Please let me know, or let B IV know, what day you want to see her. And please, please, don’t scold me because of what she says. I was so glad to see you last week, and so was she. She cried when Dr. P 1 said, take the chocolate tablets. Don’t tell her anything I say, will you ? “S. B.” [From Sally, October 9, 1900.] “You didn’t give me the bills as you said you would, so that unless I write you this afternoon, or write the family, I shall certainly get into mis- chief again. I can’t help it. I have n’t been here since I brought B I yesterday, and I’m simply aching to do something. I’d like to go way off ever so far in the country, or else be in a spilly boat, — one of the sea-sick kind, you know— for hours and hours. It would be so splendid! • •••••• • • • • “I don’t know who is here now. These new people, or new-old ones, whatever they are, are most puzzling. I thought B II was always B II whether you hypnotized B I or IV, but she is n’t. If you start with B I, II is more like her, and if you start with B IV she’s more like that. Don’t you think so ?1 And then after she wakes up again it’s the same way. 1 So far as II is concerned Sally is mistaken, but after waking, all sorts of mixtures could be made.](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b28047849_0571.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
