Thanks Max and Stephen! Yes, I doubt the multiples would be able to respond
differentially to an actual, strong sleeping pill. I didn't find this idea
mentioned on snopes, but after asking my friend again, I think it came from the
TV show Matlock. Andy Griffith plays a lawyer (Matlock) who discovers someone
whose alter commits murder. Matlock tells the jury that he has learned there is
evidence ("studies") showing that the person could be affected by the sleeping
pill while the alter is not. So...clearly no actual evidence for such an
idea.
G.L. (Gary) Peterson,Ph.D
Psychology@SVSU
On May 22, 2012, at 2:54 PM, sbl...@ubishops.ca wrote:
> On 22 May 2012 at 12:05, Maxwell Gwynn wrote, in response to Gerald
> Peterson:
>
> "...an active drug such as a sleeping pill would surely have the same
> physiological effect on the person, independent of which
> "personality" was being enacted <snip>
>
> This would make an excellent empirical study. "
>
> I agree with both points. Multiple personalities are unquestionably a
> phenomenon of social construction or role-playing and have no "real"
> physiological basis. So whether you have one or a thousand multiple
> personalities, or "alters of Satan and God, of dogs, cats, lobsters,
> and stuffed animals - even of people thousands of years old or from
> another dimension (1)", a sleeping pill is gonna zap 'em every one
> at one go.
>
> Still, if someone did give such a person a sleeping pill and God went
> to sleep while Satan stayed awake, we'd have to revise that
> assertion, wouldn't we?
>
> Which leads me to segue to a topic I was planning to post about
> anyway: words of wisdom from the late, great physicist Richard
> Feynman, "If it disagrees with experiment, it's wrong". See him
> explain the essence of science in 63 seconds in his own imimitable
> way, here:
>
> http://snipurl.com/23mltse
>
> Feynman: gone, but not forgotten.
>
> Stephen
>
> 1. Piper, A. (1998). Multiple Personality Disorder: Witchcraft
> Survives in the Twentieth Century. http://snipurl.com/23mm6h2
>
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> Professor of Psychology, Emeritus
> Bishop's University
> Sherbrooke, Quebec, Canada
> e-mail: sblack at ubishops.ca
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