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The desire for acceptance and recognition is a bottomless pit in the human soul. If it cannot be attained in one way, it will be attained in another. If attainment seems beyond the grasp, self-destruction looms as the only alternative. Is not a shattering, splintering of oneself a form of self-destruction?—Chris Costner Sizemore
Despite the growing interest in recent years in the phenomenon known as “multiple personality” and the growing clinical sophistication in diagnosing and treating this syndrome, few attempts have been made to interpret this disorder within the framework of any of the major psychoanalytic metapsychological systems. This disorder presents numerous conceptual problems for psychoanalytic metapsychology, and in this paper I am going to approach some of them from the point of view of the psychology of the self. What I have to say is not new in