alternating personality
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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 Andrew Lang
"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 George Tyrrell
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 R. Osgood Mason
It remained the chief alternating personality for four years, when "Twoey" again returned.
From Human Personality and its Survival of Bodily Death by F. W. H. (Frederic William Henry) Myers
He had been profoundly instructed by Tolman's account of a case of alternating personality which he had studied with so much care.
From The Tyranny of the Dark by Hamlin Garland
