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
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
"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
Hundreds of cases of hallucinations, alternating personality, hysterio-epilepsy, and other kindred apparent abnormalities, had been studied by means of hypnotism, and certain processes inhibited or set going at the will of an operator.
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
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