Show DUAL 1 TAL NATURE T T AA A A CASES instances which outshine Outa hine dr jekyll and mr hyde account of one woman who had as aa many as ten personalities english doctors theory many strange hallucinations london dr jekyll and mr hyde must look to their laurels british scientists have uncovered instances ut human beings who possessed as adny many as aa ten different personalities one in particular could change her mood every hour in the day A remarkable example Is that of 0 william sharp who shook ott off his bis male mental characteristics and became a woman in heart and mind sharp when a youth ran away and joined a band of gypsies gyp when ho he returned to society he took up literature and decided he be wanted to become a poet ile he found he could not portray hla his ideals while plain william sharp ile he would sit down take upon him self belf a feminine tone and write books as fiona macleod he used to say tie could write out OZ 0 his bis heart in a way he could vot ot do 40 us as william sharp ilona fiona always was all spoken of as a separate person and he ha even wrote letters to her there was a real difference in the literary style and even in the handwriting another case was waa that of a miss beauchamp who had what to is described as an a multiple personality it was recorded recorded of her that she could change her personality hour by hour in one of her characters she was described as a saint very prim and rigidly conscientious ious quite incapable of dishonesty e in another character she relaxed somewhat and inobe la the third personality sona lity she was waa known us aa sally chiefly because of her mischievous troublesome and nasty behavior ails beauchamp like most women disliked spiders intensely but it was wan astonishing to find that her third personality sona lity sally loved them and collected them in her trinket box often she would scream on discovering the very spider she aha had so carefully P placed laced in the trinket box herself sally would write letters to people to whom miss beauchamp would not speak ln in this way she found herself in for appointments with persons she would not think of meeting as aa miss alias beauchamp it was easy to see which character was in possession by the way she w walked by the clothes she wore and by the manner in which she shook hands again there was the dase case of the i rev ansel baughan who awoke one day to find himself living under the name of brown a long way from his botne borne he had wandered there and had been living there for two months keeping a shop i these theao extraordinary cases of dual personality are eclipsed by this case this woman evidenced the possession of no fewer than ton ten dl personalities ali ties one of which was of cour course fie her normal self elf her abnormal ab norma states were 1 A childish mood in which she referred to herself as a thing or a rood thing even signing letters in this fashion 2 A vassi passionate onate mood in which she became intensely irate and even went i so far as to bite her clothes this personality was very much better educated than that of the thing and the i letters written by tier her while under I 1 its ta influence were in a vastly different handwriting during this mood she i referred to herself as old nick S every now and again the patient became deaf and dumb during buring these cheso stages sho she would communicate with her fellows only by talking on her fin dingere gere the method of which lin in guage jhb understood slightly la in her normal state always her transition from this mood would be to that of the good thing thine but frequently she aho would be a deaf mute for days at a time 4 A mood in which she imagined herself only three days old 5 an even more remarkable mood in which she thought that she had been born only the night before 6 A terrible mood in which many degene were evidenced while under this control she invariably referred to herself as the dreadful wicked creature and gloried in her wickedness 4 0 7 A surprising moral and docile mood in which she referred to herself as pretty dear good god creature or toms darling 8 several periods in which she was proved to be quite blind but in spite of this able to draw with wonderful skill 9 A state of paralysis reproduced from a former illness A british psychologists In eions proved p roved that memory of one personality sona lity continued from the last appearance pe arance of that same personality there was waa thus a continuity of tho the same came personality though each one was ignorant of every other one |