Ralph Allison and In-System Romance
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lb_leeMori: finished the Magic Daughter. It was good! Recommended for anyone interested in a MPD integration memoir.
In the same book sweep, I got D. Scott Rogo's "The Infinite Boundary: a psychic look at Spirit Possession, Madness, and Multiple Personality," which I do not recommend. It's too credulous for me, and the whole prologue is about a trans woman being made cis and straight through exorcism. Ech!
But go figure, it has the first medical multi citation of headmate sex I know of! And of course, it comes from Ralph fuckin' Allison.
Allison was considered one of THE multi shrinks, back in the day. He coined the term "Inner Self-Helper," cured Henry Dana Hawksworth, but by 1980 he was already drinking his own Koolaid and turned into a crank convinced that multiples had psychic powers and called to demonic entities to possess them. Dude started exorcising his patients and wrote about it in his 1980 book, Minds In Many Pieces, which is where Rogo pulls the following story: while treating a female multi, "an unfamiliar entity, who called himself 'Dennis,' suddenly popped forth. He stated that he was possessing Elise because of his sexual attraction toward 'Shannon,' an important secondary personality of the patient's! (...) The inexplicable appearance of Dennis confused Dr. Allison, who had never heard of one secondary personality falling in love with another. (...) The therapist asked 'Dennis' just how he expected to consummate his love for Shannon. 'Dennis's' response was (...) That he could possess anyone Elise dated. 'Shannon' was called forth (...) And she corroborated 'Dennis's' story." (261-262)
Of course, Elise's ISH says that Dennis "had taken control of Elise because of her experiments with witchcraft, which had opened her to ge evil," (262) and they end up exorcising him very dramatically.
Ugh. I can't believe the earliest citation I have for this now is THAT book, which I reeeeeaaally don't want to read! Even the selections of Rogo I pounded through were a drag!
In the same book sweep, I got D. Scott Rogo's "The Infinite Boundary: a psychic look at Spirit Possession, Madness, and Multiple Personality," which I do not recommend. It's too credulous for me, and the whole prologue is about a trans woman being made cis and straight through exorcism. Ech!
But go figure, it has the first medical multi citation of headmate sex I know of! And of course, it comes from Ralph fuckin' Allison.
Allison was considered one of THE multi shrinks, back in the day. He coined the term "Inner Self-Helper," cured Henry Dana Hawksworth, but by 1980 he was already drinking his own Koolaid and turned into a crank convinced that multiples had psychic powers and called to demonic entities to possess them. Dude started exorcising his patients and wrote about it in his 1980 book, Minds In Many Pieces, which is where Rogo pulls the following story: while treating a female multi, "an unfamiliar entity, who called himself 'Dennis,' suddenly popped forth. He stated that he was possessing Elise because of his sexual attraction toward 'Shannon,' an important secondary personality of the patient's! (...) The inexplicable appearance of Dennis confused Dr. Allison, who had never heard of one secondary personality falling in love with another. (...) The therapist asked 'Dennis' just how he expected to consummate his love for Shannon. 'Dennis's' response was (...) That he could possess anyone Elise dated. 'Shannon' was called forth (...) And she corroborated 'Dennis's' story." (261-262)
Of course, Elise's ISH says that Dennis "had taken control of Elise because of her experiments with witchcraft, which had opened her to ge evil," (262) and they end up exorcising him very dramatically.
Ugh. I can't believe the earliest citation I have for this now is THAT book, which I reeeeeaaally don't want to read! Even the selections of Rogo I pounded through were a drag!
