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 Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin) Reeve
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
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
"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
And from here we come to the exceptional cases of alternating personality.
From Psychotherapy by Hugo Münsterberg