The Banner-Democrat. [volume] (Lake Providence, East Carroll Parish, La.) 1892-current, 1902-02-08
A TRIPLE PERSONALITY.
REMARKABLE IDENTIFICATION
OF A BOSTON GIRL.

to the First-Third Self Distin-
sulshed by Bad Temper.
DR.. Morton Prince, physician for
nervous diseases at the City Hospital,
has a patient under his observation
who outdoes the famous dual creation
Of r, l.. Stevenson's genius. His DR..
Jekyll had dual personality, but DR..
Princes patient enjoys the distinction
Of being the possessor of triple self.
The doctor is now writing mono
graph on the case for the London So
ciety for Psychical Research.
The patient, young woman, known
as Miss Beauchamp." is quiet, re-
served, studious and with strong
leaning toward the religious;
reader of French. lover of music and
person of high idealism. she can
recall none of her other personalities.
The second self has been called
sally" and the disposition and the
FRANKS of this personality fit the name
admirably. sally" hates the proper
curcumspect miss Beauchamp," and
torments her to a degree well nigh
incredible" While Miss Beauchamp"
does not know of her existence, she
on the other hand, knows the most sec
ret thoughts OF Miss Beauchamp."
An absolute antithesis to the other.
Sally" detests books, study and
church going and delights in practical
Jokes. She is 'vipdictive. too, especi-
ally regarding Miss Beauchamp,"
and some of the annoyances to which
she has subjected the latter show
fiendish ingenuity.
DIR. Prince says that "Miss Beau
champ" also has three hypnotic states,
and that he has analysed her continu-
ously for three years, his investiga-
lions occupying hundreds of hours
at a time. During this period the
three personalities have been coming
and going apparently without any con-
sistency. Each of the three claims to
be the real miss Beauchamp" and
to have the sole right to occupy her
body.
When "Miss Beauchamp" first came
under DR.. Princes observation, she
was q neurasthenic of very severe
type. A student In. New England
college, she was diligent and quick
witted, but had to abandon the course
owing to her excessive nervousness.
Physically she was quite wreck. Her
innate temperament is one extreme
idealism. Consulting DR.. Price regard
ing her neurasthenia, the usual treat
ment was applied with no effective re-
suits, however. Finally DR.. Prince
tried hypnotic suggestion.
"One day." says DR.. Prince, when
I hypnotized her and referred to some
thing that she had done in a previous
hypnotic state, she denied all knowl-
edge of it and said it was not so. This
surprised me and l attributed the de-
NAL at first to an attempt to deception.
I awakened her, and put her to sleep
again, and this time she admitted what
she had previously denied. This
rather puzzled me, and made various
tests to determine her honesty in the
matter.
THE next time hypnotized her she
denied what she had previously admit
ted. until it dawned on me that
was dealing with an entirely different
personality, and this proved to be the
case. It turned out that when she went
into the state of which she later de
MED the facts she was an entirely dis
tinct and separate person"
Sally" often carries on a cores
pondence with Miss Beauchamp,"
pointing out all the weak points in the
latter's character, dwelling on all her
little slips and foibles. telling her all
her reckless acts and secret thoughts.
When Miss Beauchamp" wakes in the
morning she finds pinned up on the
wall of her room verses containing all
sorts of personal allusions, letters call
ing her names, telling fictitious things
persons have said about her, in short
doing everything imaginable to make
her life miserable.
The third personality later developed
in which Miss Beauchamp" did not
know DR.. Prince at all and had wholly
lost the taste for music, literature and
kindred things. In this personality
the woman has no emotional ability
excepting bad temper"
What Is the key to the enigma? DR..
Prince thinks he has found it.
In 1898 Miss Beauchamp," as she
originally was constituted, was nurse
in hospital. One night, while sitting
in her room. the face of man sud-
denly appeared at her window. 1t
was friend who had known her since
childhood and who had been a sort
of promoter. to her. She beckoned
him to go down stairs and met him
on the doorstep. He was on his way
to New York and had wandered to the
hospital grounds. In spirit Of fun
he had climbed the fire escape and
found himself looking into miss Beau
champs" room. The improperly and
dramatic nature Of the proceeding act
Ing upon Miss Beauchamps" fine
nervous organization, gave her shock
from which she never recovered.
This incident" says DIR. Prince,
"disintegrated her. Certain compon-
ents of her personality became disin-
tegrated from the rest. Certain local
areas OF her brain have gone to sleep.
Her original self became modified
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