psychiatry, 44 psychoanalysis, 49, 50, 52, 55, 58, 62, 64, 113, 115, 116, 168, 171, 268, 295, 297, 301, 320, 323, 341, 342, 344, 347, 348, 351, 355, 383, 384, 388, 425, 427, 446, 449; as force, 49; turning point of, 361 psychoanalyst, 267, 320 psychological test, 447, 448; word association, 447 psychoneurosis, 116, 250. See also grande hyst@erie psychosis, 116; freedom from, 392. See also schizophrenia psychosomatic illness, 117 psychotic, 117, 204 punishment, 351 rage, 220, 351; genesis of, 342;
return of, 402
Ramon, 336, 416, 433 rejection, 56 religion, 420-421. See also fundamentalist faith religious conflict, 288 repression, 111, 214, 221; of the waking self, 73 repudiation: of femininity, as reaction against mother, 285; of women's organs, 287 resistance, 46, 320, 326, 335, 348, 363, 383
Reynolds, Mary, 108, 109 ritual battering, 209ff; burns, 211;
cathartics, 209; dislocation, 211, enemas, 209; fracture, 211; instruments of torture, 210; internal injuries, 210; sadistic tortures, 210; severing of hymen, 210; suffocation, 211, 212; vaginal manipulation, 210; vibration, 211. See also abuses Ruthie (ruthie Dorsett), 186, 187, 289, 296, 304, 315, 335, 341, 361, 378ff, 385, 388ff, 392, 395, 396, 398, 399, 413, 446. See also alternating selves; alternations of personality schizophrenia, 117, 241, 261, 273-274, 313, 322; catatonic phase of, 207 secondary selves, 431, 447 seizure, psychological, 47 self-effacement, 39 self-realization, 308, 437 self-repudiation, 343 sex, 64, 262; as degradation, 185;
attitude toward, 182; copulation, parental, 184; desire for, 351;
differences, 286-287; distinction, 291; distortions about, 290; intercourse, 184, 186; sexless marriage, 417; starvation, 348; violation, 250 sexuality, 186 shame, 376 shock treatment, 355
Sid (sid Dorsett), 283-285, 286-287, 290-291, 296, 315, 335, 341, 361, 362, 378, 380, 387, 389, 411, 412, 413, 414, 424, 429, 440.
See also alternating selves; alternations of personality sinister force. See terrible thing, the sleeping Sybil, 399
Smead, Mrs., 108, 109
Smith, Miss, 108 sodium penthothal, 355, 356, 357, 360, 363, 384; addiction to, 363, 384; dependency on, 361, 363;
psychological addiction to, 363; weaning from, 363
special friends: within, 50, 177-180; without, 100-108, 122, 178 speech, precocity of, 213 stealing, 202, 203 suicide, 310, 311, 312, 368, 373, 388, 395, 397, 410, 411; attemp, 336; consideration of, 352 Sybil. See waking self, the Sybil Ann (sybil Ann Dorsett), 301, 302, 303, 304, 315, 341, 347-348, 358-359, 361, 362, 378, 379, 389. See also alternating selves; alternations of personality symptoms, emotional, 52, 64-65, 75, 76, 81, 93, 111-112, 122, 130, 135, 142, 211, 423 symptoms, hysterical: conversion, 165, 221;
numbness, 431; paralysis, 431; paresis, 431; seizure, 431;
spasticity, 431 symptoms, nervous, 15, 37, 39, 41, symptoms, physical, 39, 42, 51, 84, 86, 91, 93, 113, 195, 211, 213, 220, 224, 263, 337, 357, 377, 378, 401; gastrointestinal, 432; Vicky, 164.
See also symptoms, psychological symptoms, psychological, 49, 53, 64, 65, 66, 67, 68, 69, 72, 76, 77, 80, 81, 85-86, 91, 102, 107, 112, 113, 118, 119, 122, 135, 138, 142, 143, 151, 155, 164ff, 172, 196, 220, 292, 304, 308, 336, 349, 355, 356, 357, 358, 359, 373, 374, 378, 383, 401, 407, 426; linkage with early traumas, 341; neurasthenia, 304
terrible thing, the, 39, 51, 52, 53, 55, 56, 65, 69, 107, 113, 114, 117, 122, 144ff, 150, 151, 153, 155; lost time, 114, 117, 122, 150, 151, 156, 164, 282, 315-316, 341, 344, 360, 361, 362, 375, 404-405 testicles, 287
Thigpen, Dr. Corbey H., A Case of Multiple Personality, 108 Three Faces of Eve, 381 time: new sense of, 435; normal, 445 torture, instruments of, 222 trauma, 110, 176, 188, 199, 306, 314, 327, 336, 362, 380, 383, 385, 386, 394, 402, 409, 434;
original one, 341; taproot of, 402 trust, 45, 68, 77, 176, 224, 297, 368, 405 umbilical cord, 179 unconscious, the, 119, 275, 283, 291, 297, 321, 346, 367, 392, 393, 400, 402, 425, 443, 447, 449;
total, 381 uniqueness, 291 uterus, 287
vagina, 286, 287
Vanessa (vanessa Gail Dorsett), 123, 173, 177, 178, 179, 180, 181, 182, 186, 289, 295, 296, 298, 315, 335, 341, 344, 347, 361, 362, 370, 371, 372, 373, 376, 378, 379, 387, 389, 390, 405, 411, 414, 424, 427, 440, 445. See also alternating selves; alternations of personality Vicky (victoria Antoinette Scharleau), 100-101, 106, 107, 108, 111, 116, 117, 122, 127, 155ff, 156, 158, 159, 160, 161, 162, 164, 166, 167, 168, 169, 170, 171, 172, 173, 174, 177, 178, 180, 181, 185, 186, 202, 282, 286, 289, 298, 312, 313, 315, 317, 318, 335, 336, 337, 338, 339, 340, 341, 342, 347, 348, 350, 352, 356, 357, 360, 361, 362, 366, 371, 373, 376, 377, 378, 379, 380, 389, 390, 393, 394, 395, 396, 398, 399, 405, 408, 410, 411, 413, 414, 417, 427, 430, 431, 433, 434, 436, 440, 445, 446. See also alternating selves; alternations of personality Vive, Louis, 108, 109 voyeurism, 203
waking self, the, 111, 321, 336, 341, 446; as "boss," 357; depletion of, 340, 341; Dorsett, Sybil Isabel, 23ff; recollection of behavior of alternating self, 357; recollection of memories of alternating self, 360; unawareness of alternating selves, 324
walking, delayed, 213
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