Subject: Re: More Circumstantial Evidence that Leland did it (10/6) From: rissa@gargoyle.uchicago.edu (Patricia O Tuama) Date: 1990-10-12, 22:40 Newsgroups: alt.tv.twin-peaks In article <1990Oct9.225229.7108@ux1.cso.uiuc.edu> fal20643@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Capt. Frank A. Lauro) writes: > >} >Given that the concept of a "split personality" was invented by > >} >Hollywood and does not exist in real life, it almost seems rather > >} >pointless to speculate on who has one and why..... > >You obviously know nothing about abnormal psychology. Oh? Obviously I know enough about abnormal psychology to know that what the public calls a "split personality" or "dual nature" simply does not exist. A number of people have described Laura has having a "split personality," ie, a good side (Laura) and an evil or dark side (BOB) and that that condition has no basis in reality. > > Multiple personality > >disorder is a very rare neurosis, but it most certainly does exist outside > >Hollywood Indeed. But I didn't say MPD doesn't exist -- I said the "split personality" does not exist. Furthermore, I doubt very much whether Laura is suffering from MPD since persons with that disorder almost always have considerably more than just -two- personalities. Btw, there's an interesting analysis of MI/psychiatrists in movies in either the January or February 1988 issue of the American Jour- nal of Psychiatry.