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Chapter 13 Section 3 The three-faced personality of the young girl?

Everyone is prone to multiple personalities, and there are other imagined selves that exist inside each person. ? ?

The famous psychiatrist Dr. Prince once told a story about a woman with multiple personalities in his medical report. The heroine of the story is called Christine.The report says: ?
A young girl named Christine was referred to my clinic because of "loss of willpower" and "limb movement disorders". ?
Since the symptoms looked like hysteria, I decided to use hypnosis to find her cause.Christine was an ideal subject for hypnosis, and she quickly entered a hypnotic state.But in the deeper and deeper hypnosis, a strange thing happened: Christine seemed to become another person, and the voice of another girl came out of her mouth, and she spoke contemptuously. Tone refers to Christine as "she". ?
"But you are 'she'!" I said. ?
"No, I'm not." The voice said emphatically. ?
I realized that this might be an alter ego of Christine. ?
This person claims to be Sierra, and from the tone of her speech, it can be felt that she is a naughty, joking, and high-spirited girl (Kristine is a traditional gentle girl).Serra dismisses Christine as an indecisive, weak "stupid woman" who seems to know everything about Christine, but Christine obviously doesn't know of Serra's existence. ?
At the beginning, Sera can only speak, but cannot open her eyes (because Christine in a deep hypnotic state has her eyes closed).But slowly, Sierra was able to open her eyes (that is to say, to open the eyes of Christine who had her eyes closed), and after gaining freedom of movement, she was about to reveal her unrestrained style. She told me to smoke , To drink, put your legs on the table when talking. ?
But after the hypnosis was lifted, when Christine woke up, she was horrified by the "unladylike action" of holding a cigarette in her hand and putting her legs on the table. ?
One day, in order to follow up the illness, I called Christine's place, and another even stranger thing happened: another woman answered the phone.From the tone of her voice, she seemed to be a mature, responsible and self-controlled woman.She mistook me for a man named Jones, and she warned me that I had better not come, or she would be rude to him. ?
I sensed at that moment that this mature woman might be Christine's third personality, so I called her B4 (Kristine and Serra were B2 and B3, respectively). ?
As the treatment progressed, things gradually became clear.It turns out that Christine has three personalities. In daily life, the unruly Sera will "come out" to replace the elegant Christine from time to time, while the responsible B4 often plays the role of cleaning up the mess.Selah and B4 loathe each other, and Christine often just passively accepts Selah's jokes as a tragic fate, while B4 hates these jokes deeply. ?
Jones mentioned in B4 was later confirmed to be the key to Christine's depersonalization.It turned out that Christine's father was an irresponsible alcoholic, and her childhood was full of gray.Jones is a friend of Christine's family and treats Christine very well. Little Christine bets her emotions on Jones.In later memories, she still thinks that Jones is an upright, god-like man with all the advantages her father should have. ?
When Christine was 13 years old, her mother passed away unfortunately, and Christine was even more lonely and helpless, crying all day long. At this time, she began to have symptoms of sleepwalking. ?
At 16, to escape her alcoholic father, Christine left home to find a job as a nurse in a hospital.She remains in touch with Jones and visits him often.One night, Jones, who had been drinking, came to see her in the nurses' dormitory. The "surrogate father" in Christine's mind suddenly showed a ferocious face and tried to rape Christine forcibly. ?
Christine herself seems to have “forgotten” about it, and it was Sierra who confided this traumatic experience to me, saying, “Since then, Kristin has been weird and unhappy.” B4 also remembers What happened that night, but I have no memory of what happened after that night. ?
I believe that Christine and B4 are the patient's "true self", so I use hypnotic suggestion to try to integrate these two personalities.As for the savage Serra, I decided to "excommunicate" her, or repress her to the lowest level of Christine's subconscious.It turned out to be a success, and Christine finally recovered. ?
Mind walk?

According to psychologist Putnam, each of us has more personality tendencies than we like to admit.Freud's "repression theory" provides a convincing explanation for the "function" of multiple personalities.Taking this case as an example, Christine suppressed the unpleasant experience of Jones molesting her, and Selah "retained" the memory of this event, which is a psychological defense mechanism to protect herself from grief . ?
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