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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...
Suddenly, as she talked. Eve White began to change. She looked dazed; then the lines of her face altered in a slow, rippling transformation. Her hands dropped lightly from her head to her lap. She relaxed into an attitude of comfort that Dr. Thigpen had never seen before. Her blue eyes opened wide and sparkled. She gave a quick, restless smile. In a bright, unfamiliar voice, she said: "Hi there, Doc!" Everything about her had become coquettishly provocative...
...White neither smoked nor drank, but now the patient asked Dr. Thigpen for a cigarette. As she puffed, she prattled in her new, brittle voice: "She's been having a real tough time. She's such a damn dope though . . . What she puts up with from that sorry Ralph White-and all her mooning over the little brat! To hell with...
Before Psychiatrist Thigpen's eyes, Eve White had changed into a different personality. She gave herself the name Eve Black. Sometimes the new personality appeared spontaneously. At other times the psychiatrists hypnotized Eve White, called upon Eve Black to appear, and White turned into Black. The alter ego, it developed, was fun-loving and nightclub-haunting, a smoker, drinker, dancer, leader-on of men, and daring dresser-all the things that Eve White could never...
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...