alternating personality

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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 Mason, R. Osgood

And from here we come to the exceptional cases of alternating personality.

From Psychotherapy by Münsterberg, Hugo

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 Lang, Andrew

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 Garland, Hamlin

This dislocation of memory is a variety of aphasia known as amnesia, and when the memory is recurrently lost and restored, we have alternating personality.

From The Ear in the Wall by Reeve, Arthur B. (Arthur Benjamin)