Pearson Education Psychology
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North American (General)Transcript
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writing under a pseudonym, Quiet Storm, a woman post a message on an online bulletin board to share her experience of what it is like to have multiple personalities residing within herself. She describes a personality that was so fractured because of severe childhood abuse that it had splintered into many pieces. Some of the pieces bear memories of the abuse, whereas others go about their business unaware of the pain and trauma. Now imagine that thes separate parts developed their own unique characteristics. Imagine to that thes alter personalities become so compartmentalized that they don't know of each other's existence. One personality, Sally, is a nurse. Another Diana is a therapist, while Patty is a playful little girl who collects insects, which she keeps in a mayonnaise jar. There is also clear, the shy one and Kathy, an adolescent working hard to grow up. She refers to herself as we Ah, collection of many different people who share the same body. These alter personalities have their own individual goals, fears and memories. Some of them are still mired in the past, a dark past filled with shrouded memories of traumatic abuse and incest. These altars were born of abuse they suffered at the hands of their own father. There would be one Alter Nancy, who would go to father when he beckoned, her toe lay with him, shielding the others from having to do the things he demanded. Nancy protected the others, but at the cost of fracturing the sense of self that makes each of us a whole person.