So called SP (6)

The triggering factor for the appearance of this type of SP varies, but often it has to do with some critical or traumatic events in the past. That reminds us of a mechanism in which flash back of the past occurs among PTSD patients. In other occasions, the host personality might feel cornered and unable to defend her and becomes immobilized, when a SP might show up for “rescuing” her.

One of my clients, a young woman and a wife was harshly criticized by her mother-in-law for not being a “good wife.” She became speechless for a while and became almost tearful, when all the sudden her voice deepens and a male personality appears, stating how unreasonable for the in-law for criticizing her while her own son is such a wayward, so much into gambling and alcohol, without taking enough care about his own family including her. (The mother-in-law is then further convinced that her son was manipulated by a woman who is forcefully “mind controlling” her son in this tactful way..