alternating personality
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This dislocation of memory is a variety of aphasia known as amnesia, and when the memory is recurrently lost and restored, we have alternating personality.
From The Ear in the Wall by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)
I shall compare, as I have already said, the ethnological evidence for savage usages and beliefs analogous to thought-transference, coincidental hallucinations, alternating personality, and so forth, with the best attested modern examples, experimental or spontaneous.
From The Making of Religion by Lang, Andrew
"Possession" is of course a fable; the superabundant world-wide, world-old evidence for the phenomenon was thrust aside without a glance, till hypnotic experiments brought to light what is called "alternating personality."
From The Faith of the Millions (2nd series) by Tyrrell, George
It remained the chief alternating personality for four years, when "Twoey" again returned.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by Myers, F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry)
And from here we come to the exceptional cases of alternating personality.
From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo
