hello this is dr grande today's question is can i analyze the case of alicia esteva head who also went by the name tanya head this case was the topic of a documentary titled the woman who wasn't there just a reminder i'm not diagnosing anybody in this video only speculating about what could be happening in a situation like this if you enjoyed this video please like it subscribe to my channel and consider supporting me on patreon i'll put the link to patreon in the description for this video so first to look at the background of this case i'll move through the timeline of curious events and then offer my analysis alicia esteva head was born in barcelona spain on july NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN. her family was wealthy when she was a child she was always the center of attention she was the only girl of five children she was described as sensitive jovial and pleasant by age six she was making up stories about imaginary boyfriends she had difficulty separating reality from fantasy head would spend time at exclusive country clubs playing tennis riding horses and sailing on yachts but her life was not without difficulty she was bullied when she was young for being overweight when she was NUMBER_TOKEN she was in an automobile collision her right arm was severed and had to be reattached in NUMBER_TOKEN her father became involved in a financial scandal he as well as head's brother would serve prison time for their involvement had developed a particular interest in american culture she loved americans had attended college worked for a hotel and later worked as a management secretary when the september NUMBER_TOKEN attacks occurred she was in barcelona enrolled in a master's degree program she eventually graduated with an mba she traveled the united states in NUMBER_TOKEN or NUMBER_TOKEN. she was using the name tanya head she formed a support group for NUMBER_TOKEN NUMBER_TOKEN survivors she claimed to be a survivor even though of course she was not there on the day of the attacks the next year she joined the world trade center survivors network and after a few months the network merged with her support group had repeated a particular story about what happened to her this is something that largely stayed consistent throughout the time she was pretending to be a survivor these are the claims that she made on NUMBER_TOKEN she worked for merrill lynch and was running a meeting on the NUMBER_TOKENth floor of the south tower when the north tower was hit she started making her way down the south tower she had made it to the NUMBER_TOKENth floor when united airlines flight NUMBER_TOKEN slammed into the south tower she could feel the heat of the burning fuel smell her own skin burning her right arm and back were burned she was thrown through the air when she woke up she realized an assistant of hers had been decapitated head was rescued by a man named welles crother a well-known hero from that day who saved as many as NUMBER_TOKEN people her recovery in the hospital was lonely and brutal another part of head story was that she was engaged to a man named dave he was killed in the north tower in later versions of the story dave was her husband so we see some inconsistency she talked about this picture-perfect unofficial wedding in hawaii how dave was the love of her life they were perfectly matched we see this whole tale of romance her story had quite an impression on survivors many of them described it as realistic dramatic and inspiring they felt as
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