I find I'm frequently popping up on this community for weird historical facts about multiplicity. Please bear with me.
Prior to 1900, possession was the most frequent "diagnosis" for cases that might very well have been cases of multiplicity. Psychologically, we've only thought about personality and identity in those terms very recently (last 100 years or so) and before that everything was given supernatural reasons for occurring. If you read up on some stories of possession, particularly case studies of some witch burnings in the 16th and 17th centuries, you'll realize that all of the "symptoms" sounds a hell of a lot like multiplicity.
Some of us even have demons or inhuman soul-bonds and the like. Technically, that kind of multiplicity fits the very definition of possession.
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Date: 2006-10-26 02:46 pm (UTC)Prior to 1900, possession was the most frequent "diagnosis" for cases that might very well have been cases of multiplicity. Psychologically, we've only thought about personality and identity in those terms very recently (last 100 years or so) and before that everything was given supernatural reasons for occurring. If you read up on some stories of possession, particularly case studies of some witch burnings in the 16th and 17th centuries, you'll realize that all of the "symptoms" sounds a hell of a lot like multiplicity.
Some of us even have demons or inhuman soul-bonds and the like. Technically, that kind of multiplicity fits the very definition of possession.
Luc, et al