The concept goes quite a long way back, although the first popular accounts featuring an internal or subjective space were Milligan's and Chase's, then Kit Castle's in Katherine, It's Time (which is a simply ghastly book and ought to be burninated, IONSHO).
There is quite a lot about it in Robert Mayer's books. "Anna and Beth described their internal world as a beautiful, Tolkien-like (I despise that expression - Andy) Shangri-La with mountains, rivers, streams, valleys, wooded paths, caves, trees, and flowers. Most of the time it was sunny and pleasant, and the rain was always gentle and warm. The two alter personalities internally romped, lay in the sun, climbed trees, took walks. When they wanted to 'come out', they walked to one end of this paradise, wehre there was a gate to the real world."
"Colleen now believed she had more than a thousand internal [didn't come up front] personalities -- she tried to keep track of them on a large chart on a wall of her apartment -- who lived in what seemed like a fortified fairyland, complete with ornate castles. As Colleen looked around, she found more and more nooks and cranies, which she carefully categorized. She would take days off from work and spend them exploring the internal terrain."
George Ganaway had heard it so often by the mid1990s that he used it to imply that people who claimed multiplicity were merely playacting in a faddish way.
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Date: 2005-11-22 05:45 am (UTC)There is quite a lot about it in Robert Mayer's books. "Anna and Beth described their internal world as a beautiful, Tolkien-like (I despise that expression - Andy) Shangri-La with mountains, rivers, streams, valleys, wooded paths, caves, trees, and flowers. Most of the time it was sunny and pleasant, and the rain was always gentle and warm. The two alter personalities internally romped, lay in the sun, climbed trees, took walks. When they wanted to 'come out', they walked to one end of this paradise, wehre there was a gate to the real world."
"Colleen now believed she had more than a thousand internal [didn't come up front] personalities -- she tried to keep track of them on a large chart on a wall of her apartment -- who lived in what seemed like a fortified fairyland, complete with ornate castles. As Colleen looked around, she found more and more nooks and cranies, which she carefully categorized. She would take days off from work and spend them exploring the internal terrain."
George Ganaway had heard it so often by the mid1990s that he used it to imply that people who claimed multiplicity were merely playacting in a faddish way.