Word: bianchi
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...tapes, Bianchi, under hypnosis, revealed his painful childhood: his adoptive mother, alternately seductive and sadistic, punished him by holding his hand over the stove, physically beating him and forcing him, at age 14, to pray over his dead adoptive father's body for a week as it lay in its coffin. Watkins feels that such experiences made Bianchi a multiple personality. So does Psychiatrist Ralph Allison, who says he has studied some 50 multiple-personality cases. When asked how he knew he had found the "Steve" personality in Bianchi, Allison said simply...
Psychiatrist Donald Lunde, recommended by the defense, agrees that Bianchi clearly went through a repression of great hostility toward his adoptive mother. But a multiple personality? Lunde is uncertain. Part of his doubt stems from viewing the tapes. "At times," he says, "there are serious questions of whether hypnosis is really going on. There's a possibility that Watkins suggested the presence of other personalities. He asks questions early on that provide a kind of guidance. In one tape, he even says, 'If there is some other part of you that wants to talk...
...prosecution's choices, Psychiatrist Saul Faerstein, goes a step further; he sees the tapes as proof that the whole hypnosis was a hype. Says he: "Bianchi was almost a caricature of a hypnotized person, with eyes closed and head bobbing-a pseudo trance." The other prosecution choice. Psychiatrist Martin Orne, staged his own "double hallucination" test of Bianchi. After trying to hypnotize the killer, Orne asked him to shake hands with an imaginary figure that he identified as Bianchi's attorney Dean Brett. Then Orne had the real Brett enter the room. Confused, Bianchi asked if Brett could...
...Bianchi (long pause): He's real (pointing to Brett...
...Bianchi: 'Cause he's not here any more (motioning to where the imaginary Brett stood). How can I see him in two places...