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...patient sitting in the office of Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley in Augusta, Ga. was a neat, colorless woman of 25 who held herself primly as she described her symptoms in monotonous though cultivated accents and stilted language. Her name, for the purpose of the amazing case history now reported by the two psychiatrists in The Three Faces of Eve (McGraw-Hill: $4.50), is Eve White. For the most part, her troubles had been no more unusual than severe headaches or mild blackouts, but that afternoon she recounted a weirdly disturbing episode: one day, of which...
Enter Jane. Treading gently, because there are fewer than a hundred cases of dual personality in medical literature, and none well authenticated in the last 50 years, Psychiatrists Thigpen and Cleckley put their patient in a hospital, where she could be observed and get psychotherapy. Even under treatment. Eve Black "came out" and misbehaved occasionally. Batteries of psychological tests showed two distinct personalities, far more sharply differentiated in voice, speech, posture, mannerisms, handwriting and emotions than the most brilliant actress could have portrayed. Yet there was not the faintest suggestion of a mental illness resembling schizophrenia (the so-called "split...
What mother had wanted her daughter, then five, to do was to touch the face of her dead grandmother in farewell just before the funeral. Psychiatrists Thigpen and Cleckley are extremely cautious in using this incident as the basis of an explanation of the Eve-Eve-Jane split. But, they say, the little girl had already gained, from previous experiences, an overwhelming fear of death and the dead. This incident, they suggest, may have triggered a flight from reality in which the original personality (most closely resembling Jane) was replaced by the compulsive Eve White, while the hoydenish Eve Black...
...sometimes nursing the babies when they are restless and at other times ignoring them, the babies not only cry more but grow more slowly than those who get consistent, considerate care. ¶ The story of a young mother with a triple personality. Drs. Corbett H. Thigpen and Hervey M. Cleckley of Augusta, Ga. told of a patient whom they called Eve White who had a second personality, "Eve Black," and a third known simply as "Jane." Prim and proper Eve White seemed to be unaware of the existence of Eve Black, but in the Eve Black phase she became coquettish...
Some of Dr. Cleckley's case histories show people who have only partly developed semantic dementia, who are able to keep out of serious trouble and even succeed in a profession-one a doctor, another a psychiatrist...