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INTRODUCTION No serious discussion of the nature of the self can ignore the rapidly increasing mass of evidence which relates to the dissociation of personality and the birth of multiple personality. This article is based on the analysis of a dissociation during delirium of a personality into ten pseudo-personalities. Each of them was capable of recognising itself as a self, each knew nothing of the existence of the others, each reacted in its own way towards the environment. All of these, however, were synthesised later in the normal personality whose memory was continuous with that of the self which had preceded the delirium. This personality included the memories of all the fragmentary pseudo-personalities which had alternated in consciousness during the delirium. Few patients who have suffered such extensive dissociations and delusions as those to be described retain the memory of their psychotic experiences; though Janet states that in such cases, in order to bring about a complete cure, the memories of the secondary personalities should be reintegrated. Since he has never found a patient who remembered, he infers that he has never cured one completely. In the present instance, however, with the recovery of the memory of Med. Psych. IV 12 |