The 92 Personalities of Truddi Chase

The medical term is “dissociative identity disorder.” It’s more popularly known as multiple personalities.

A woman named Truddi Chase became the public face of the disorder in the late 1980s when she wrote an autobiography in which she described the 92 distinct personalities she carried.

She said it was the product of sustained childhood sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. She eventually came to refer to her personalities as “The Troops.”

Get your copy of Troops for Truddi Chase’s book

Her book, which became a bestseller, was called When Rabbit Howls. Chase’s co-author was her hypnotherapist, Dr. Robert Phillips.

He was with her the day I first met The Troops.

So here now, from 1987, Dr. Robert Phillips and the Troops for Truddi Chase.

Truddi Chase died in 2010. She was 74.

Chris Costner Sizemore

Today doctors call it “dissociative identity disorder” but when Chris Costner Sizemore was diagnosed and treated for it over 60 years ago, it was simply called “multiple personality disorder.”

The movie “TheThree Faces of EVe” came out in 1957, changing Sizemore’s name to EveWhite. Her “alters” were Eve Black .. and Jane. Actress Joanne Woodward won an Oscar for her portrayal of Eve.

It later came out that Sizemore had something more like 22 personaliities, not just three.

I mer in 1989, when she wrote a book called A Mind of My Own. IT told the story of how, with years of psychiatric help, she had integrated her several personalities.

So here now, from 1989. Chris Costner Sizemore.

Chris Costner Sizemore died in 2016. She was 89.