She looked around the room. “I feel—Was I asleep?” David stood there, staring at her, stunned.
“Yes,” Dr. Salem said. Ashley turned to David. “Did I say anything? I mean... was I helpful?”
My God, David thought. She doesn’t know! She really doesn’t know! David said, “You did fine, Ashley.”
“I’d like to talk to Dr. Salem alone.” “All right.” “I’ll see you later.”
The men stood there, watching the matron lead Ashley away. David sank into a chair. “What—what the hell was that all about?”
Dr. Salem took a deep breath. “In all the years that I’ve been practicing, I’ve never seen a more clear-cut case.”
“A case of what?” “Have you ever heard of multiple personality disorder?”
“What is it?” “It’s a condition where there are several completely different personalities in one body.”
It’s also known as dissociative identity disorder. It’s been in the psychiatric literature for more than two hundred years.
It usually starts because of a childhood trauma. The victim shuts out the trauma by creating another identity.
Sometimes a person will have dozens of different personalities or alters.
And they know about each other?” “Sometimes, yes. Sometimes, no.
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