alternating personality

Example Sentences

Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.

A rare example of this alternating personality brought about by hypnotism is afforded by the French subject, Mme.

From Telepathy and the Subliminal Self by Mason, R. Osgood

And from here we come to the exceptional cases of alternating personality.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

"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

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

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)