Word: janes
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Dates: during 1950-1959
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...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...
...went into a two-minute trance. As her eyes opened, she stared blankly around the room. She fixed them on the doctor. Then, "with an unknown but curiously impressive voice and with immeasurable poise." she asked: "Who are you?" This was Eve White's third personality, soon christened Jane...
Unlike Eve Black, who had probably coexisted with Eve White since childhood, Jane appeared to have just been born. She was more intelligent and had a better command of language than either Eve, and was a more mature personality, but she had no memory of any past. Jane always knew what either Eve was doing; neither knew about...
...Mother! Don't!" Gradually the Jane (third) side of her personality got the upper hand and fell in love with an engineer named Earl Lancaster. But she was still subject to unpredictable changes in personality. The psychiatrists, who by now had devoured the technical books on Jekyll-and-Hyde phenomena and had consulted colleagues across the country, were still baffled in their effort to find the underlying cause in this case. One day their patient, then in her Jane phase, gave them a strong clue. Dr. Thigpen asked to speak to Eve White. As the two doctors describe...
After hearing from Jessie, reporters for the first time in years began dialing Cabinet wives, asking if they would like to see their husbands resign. Pamela Humphrey (Treasury) and Isabelle Mitchell (Labor) were out of town. Janet Dulles (State), Jane Weeks (Commerce) and Mary Folsom (Health, Education and Welfare) declined to comment, but four wives had something to say and no hesitation in saying it. Flora Benson (Agriculture): "As long as the President wants my husband to remain in Washington, I will be happy to stay here." Gladys Seaton (Interior): "I endorse Mrs. Benson's sentiment." Miriam Summerfield (Post...