Well, I'll be damned, you're right, Jonah et al are referenced in Sybil towards the end! Totally forgot that (but then, our mind has mostly purged all memory of that book--more than y'all's, apparently).
We sort of imprinted on it in high school because we were covertly thinking of it as How To Plural. We can still recite whole passages of it that we would really like to be able to forget. x_x The Jonah reference, though, wasn't something we consciously thought about much. It just got triggered back into consciousness when we read the names, apparently.
William James is someone we would... recommend reading only in excerpts if you don't have a lot of time and patience, because his writing is very, very sloggy to wade through, and we've only gotten through excerpts. I mean, it's MEANINGFUL slog, not like the Bad Translations From French Is How To Write Queer Theory school (he could read Janet et al in the original French, so he didn't need bad translations), but it's slog nonetheless.
We didn't get treatment for it either, we didn't realize until adulthood that concussions are apparently kind of a big deal?
Concussions and TBIs can be really tricky business, which is acknowledged even by doctors who deal with them. Two people can get the exact same head injury and one will recover while the other develops impairments, and there's still no good way to predict who will go in which direction. Some people also have no "typical" concussion symptoms and think they're fine, only to find themselves struggling with cognitive impairments of some kind later.
It sounds for you guys, though, like the line from trauma to plurality was a lot more straightforward. I mean, only you're the ones who can judge for sure, but. We've also come across a few writings on Ye Olde Multiples in which vague terminology like "struck on the head" seemed to be a euphemism for abuse that extended far beyond that one incident. Doris Fischer, one of the other systems who's not talked about much any more, was alleged to have become multiple when she was "thrown roughly to the floor" by her father, and I was like..... yeeeaaah, I'm not quite buying that. (Also can't remember if it was Michael Kenny or Ian Hacking who said this, but whoever it was said that in one of Morton Prince's writeups about "B C A," he seemed to be skirting around saying that being raped by her husband was the trigger for them becoming plural.)
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Date: 2020-03-11 03:57 am (UTC)We sort of imprinted on it in high school because we were covertly thinking of it as How To Plural. We can still recite whole passages of it that we would really like to be able to forget. x_x The Jonah reference, though, wasn't something we consciously thought about much. It just got triggered back into consciousness when we read the names, apparently.
William James is someone we would... recommend reading only in excerpts if you don't have a lot of time and patience, because his writing is very, very sloggy to wade through, and we've only gotten through excerpts. I mean, it's MEANINGFUL slog, not like the Bad Translations From French Is How To Write Queer Theory school (he could read Janet et al in the original French, so he didn't need bad translations), but it's slog nonetheless.
We didn't get treatment for it either, we didn't realize until adulthood that concussions are apparently kind of a big deal?
Concussions and TBIs can be really tricky business, which is acknowledged even by doctors who deal with them. Two people can get the exact same head injury and one will recover while the other develops impairments, and there's still no good way to predict who will go in which direction. Some people also have no "typical" concussion symptoms and think they're fine, only to find themselves struggling with cognitive impairments of some kind later.
It sounds for you guys, though, like the line from trauma to plurality was a lot more straightforward. I mean, only you're the ones who can judge for sure, but. We've also come across a few writings on Ye Olde Multiples in which vague terminology like "struck on the head" seemed to be a euphemism for abuse that extended far beyond that one incident. Doris Fischer, one of the other systems who's not talked about much any more, was alleged to have become multiple when she was "thrown roughly to the floor" by her father, and I was like..... yeeeaaah, I'm not quite buying that. (Also can't remember if it was Michael Kenny or Ian Hacking who said this, but whoever it was said that in one of Morton Prince's writeups about "B C A," he seemed to be skirting around saying that being raped by her husband was the trigger for them becoming plural.)
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