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2. Fragment: an entity, as above, but with a more limited range of function, emotion, or history
3. Original Personality: the identity which developed just after birth and split off the first new personality in order to help the body survive severe stress
4. Birth Personality: synonym for # 3
5. Host Personality: the one who has executive control of the body the greatest percentage of time during a given day
6. Presenting Personality: whichever personality presents itself for treatment
7. Alternate: denotes a personality other than the original, host, or persenting. Determined by context
8. Alter: a generic term for any personality or fragment, useful because, in clinical situations, it often is unclear, for protracted periods, which personalities are original, host, presenting, and so forth, or whether an entity is suffciently distinct and elaborate for a more precise label
9. Inner Self Helper (ISH): described first by Allison (1974), ISH's are serene, rational and objective commentators and advisors
10. Ego State: as defined by Watkins and Watkins (1988), this is a body of behavior and experience whose elements are bound together by some common principle but are separated from one another by boundaries which are more or less permeable. All ego states are not personalities. The Watkins' conceptual scheme understands the human personality to be divided into organized subsystems called ego states
11. Co-Consciousness: Prince (1906) used this term to describe the awareness of one personality of the feelings, actions, and thoughts of another
12. Co-presence: the influence of one personality on another to the extent that the personality ostensibly in control has its behavior or affective state altered. The term facilitates description of the passive influence experiences quite common in the condition
13. Splitting: creating a new personality
14. Switching: changing personalities between already existing ones
15. integration: the unification of personalities, spontaneously, in the course of therapy, or via hypnotic suggestion. others understand it to denote a more pervasive and thourough psychic restructuring, and see fusion as a preliminary process
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