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multiplicity_archivesI have a question for everyone here, about a movie I recently picked up in my local DVD shop's bargain bin. It's called Session 9, and it includes a character who appears to have some sort of dissociative identity.
In short, the movie's about an asbestos removal team at an condemned mental hospital. One of them finds old tapes with session numbers (hence the title), of a psychiatrist talking to a woman (Mary Hobbes) and her alters (Wendy, a young girl; Simon, who doesn't appear until session 9; and there was another alter whose name I cannot recall, it's not listed on the IMDB)
The character in question (Gordon) -- it's a long story, but what I think has happened is that he has picked up someone else's alter (apologies if I use incorrect terminology) as a kind of walk-in. This personality is a killer. But he (the killer is referred to as 'Simon') is, according to the tapes, an alter of Mary Hobbes. It turns out that Simon killed Mary's family, and now, in Gordon's body, he has killed the cleanup crew.
My question, if you're still reading after that hideous ramble (sorry -- I'm not always very concise late at night), is this:
Has anyone here ever heard of a case where someone's alter turned up in someone else's group of alters?
Apologies again if I'm using poor terminology, and if I'm not being very clear. I will clarify in comments if people have questions, and I'm always willing to accept corrections to my terminology.
I don't know if anyone else here will have seen this movie, or will have any answers for me, but I thought I would ask.
Thank you for reading this post.
In short, the movie's about an asbestos removal team at an condemned mental hospital. One of them finds old tapes with session numbers (hence the title), of a psychiatrist talking to a woman (Mary Hobbes) and her alters (Wendy, a young girl; Simon, who doesn't appear until session 9; and there was another alter whose name I cannot recall, it's not listed on the IMDB)
The character in question (Gordon) -- it's a long story, but what I think has happened is that he has picked up someone else's alter (apologies if I use incorrect terminology) as a kind of walk-in. This personality is a killer. But he (the killer is referred to as 'Simon') is, according to the tapes, an alter of Mary Hobbes. It turns out that Simon killed Mary's family, and now, in Gordon's body, he has killed the cleanup crew.
My question, if you're still reading after that hideous ramble (sorry -- I'm not always very concise late at night), is this:
Has anyone here ever heard of a case where someone's alter turned up in someone else's group of alters?
Apologies again if I'm using poor terminology, and if I'm not being very clear. I will clarify in comments if people have questions, and I'm always willing to accept corrections to my terminology.
I don't know if anyone else here will have seen this movie, or will have any answers for me, but I thought I would ask.
Thank you for reading this post.
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Date: 2005-04-21 02:12 pm (UTC)I don't feel like a 'host' per se. More like a person with some friends who aren't physically real outside of my body (we do have an inner world where they have physical representations -- and a castle!). I think 'alters' is inaccurate because if you're talking to me, you're talking to me. They might be behind my eyes and listening, but they won't be the ones making the responses (although they will sometimes make some suggestion to me as to what to say).
I'm going to move this to a community post so I can get some more opinions. Thank you so much for yours. I'm not big on labelling, but it's seemed to me lately that a label to describe my possible state of plurality might help me understand myself a bit better.