this is a true story how often have you seen that statement the beginning of a picture it sometimes means that there was a man named polian but that any similarity between what he did in life and suddenly frightened the husband by behaving very unlike a self is nothing unique in that we all have moods we all have a secret yen to behave like somebody we particularly  in fact a modern writer has said that inside every fat man a thin man is struggling to get out well in a literal and terrifying sense inside this demurely young woman two very vivid and different personalities were battling for the mastery of her character she was in fact a case of what is called multiple personality something that also just a read about and very few have ever seen certainly not dr think penn and doc correctly of the medical college of georgia who one day were confronted with a woman who had one personality more than dr jekyll account of the case was delivered to the american psychiatric association in one thousand and fifty three and it's already a classic psychiatric literature so this movie needed no help from the imagination of a fiction writer the truth itself was fabulous enough and all the episode you're going to see happen to this girl whom they call eve white and much of the dialogue is taken from the clinical how often does this happen sometimes twice a week and the headaches what about them they happen at the same time first i get this terrible headache and where you were what you did between the time of playing in the backyard with bonnie and the next ended i guess not nothing you could say was really different for several weeks mrs white was greatly helped by the psychiatric treatment she had few headaches and they were less severe she had no more blackouts spells at least none that she was aware of but not quite a year later several things kind of voice is just one dollar but that's what that means that how long it's been going on for months why didn't you tell me this before what is this  no not in your case but that's what if i say and most cases that be right it's a serious manifestation that here but the difference in your case is this you've been frightened by this  because you recognize it as a symptom of him who are actually losing their minds rarely find anything extraordinary about hearing voices they almost invariably assume it's some sort of extra privilege enjoyed like different you just don't want to tell me but it would agree with you about that but getting back to the point here if you're not a white lie are you know what you're trying to kid me to be more like you're trying to kid me me plus you know that haven't had a case of multiple personality no is it you'd recognize one if you saw one i don't know i'm not so sure but i can tell you this much i can spot a fake as far as i can see one only suspect this is why this right my name is the black then how did it happen that you remember meeting me i know i think it happens to you don't know anything about me but i know everything about her everything i want to anyway because there's some things about i you come out as you call it whenever you want to know i wish i could but ok sometimes ok i think one thing though it's getting easier cos she's getting weaker and i'm getting stronger and alone these days just like i tell i made the th nine hundred and fifty two mrs white was admitted to the psychiatric section of the university hospital for observation and treatment during the st week the behavior was excellent there was nothing even about it  some of it but not as which i want you not to come out even if you can you're wasting your time with that i'm a doctor even if i don't come now what do you think you do about i don't know i'm not sure nobody knows too much about this because they haven't been to many such cases and i mean you know if she was in the mo and she loves to go crazy anyway afraid that is a possibility but that's a chance i think we're going to have to take if we're ever going to reunite these two personalities to put it simply i i think i'd better tell you as well as i can and just like the situation is have you ever heard of multiple personality it's a very unusual case one of the rarest in fact in the history of psychiatry you don't say this is white's problem was what is called multiple personality yes it ever heard of that notion i can say is that what actually happened this at some point in the past apparently when she was a little girl her personality became divided into two different personalities in effect she's now two different women entirely different  those close one that had that ride with you in atlanta you know those headaches and blackouts yes well that was when this other woman the one who calls herself black was trying to get out but what i want you to understand is that this is an actual mental condition with mrs why isn't pretending she can't help but that doesn't mean she psychotic you know he told me that i mean i asked him confidentially and he said no so the only thing in the world matter with you except this multiplied personality and that anywhere near crazy he told me that  the big apple every night well that's that's what i'm doing raf i don't know about i thought i wouldn't find out about i didn't know about it i mean you didn't know about it you know enough about it to go out there and get ginned up he was well enough  again well no well i wouldn't count on it then either if i were you if you think i'm going to have people laughing at me you've got another think coming if you're really crazy to be different but not this multiply thing so you don't come only now that's all is to it you understand high he's trying to kid ourselves we're losing this woman is in worse condition today than when she walked into this office two years ago the divorce you mean now it's more than that i don't believe that divorce actually affected her seriously is the only thing that not route for a marriage and that's the discouraging part of it but truth is neither eve black nor mrs white is a satisfactory solution neither is really qualified to fill the role of wife mother or even a responsible human being a victory for either would be disastrous no solution whatever and as for memories infancy childhood perhaps i should say childhoods because she says she's been coming out since she was six and empty almost abnormally normal history some patients are really so if you consider they are indeed doctor much too old for that sort of thing she made one flush and then i got out and i made a drop of blood and i got it and threw it away it was a close call think no idea unfavorably i trust the contrary they think very highly of you both of them we do understand that this is a little awkward but i we do understand that you are no longer mrs white no no no are you black then may i ask what is your name i don't know what you do know mrs white and mr black don't you know them in a way i don't think i know them very well but you know they're yes i understand that forgive the wavering thing too isn't it i should say you are well within your rights and so describing the situation and may i add it seems to grow no less so with the passage of time and i wish i understood how long as i say it's not easy to phrase these questions without sounding like an idiot but how long have you  and so now dr luce i had three inadequate that's now it is too complicated and confused his search for one stable and complete woman all of whom continued to live so to speak their own separate lives which would  irresponsible  what is it because i'm not going to let you get away with anything like that this means too much to me you've got to tell me they're all just don't ask me sorry gini i've got to i can't give you up without even knowing what's the matter the two others you know they're very different from me and i don't even know when they're coming out exactly the same maybe even more whatever it is we can handle it together then when i got under there a strange thing happen when you think back to when you were say five or six or seven years old something like that i want you to think back to when you were five years old this little girl on the phone every little thing around the house in the back here and you play under the house  did you ever go into the house for a ball what are you doing out here now i didn't call you i don't know what do you think