ABSTRACT
THE story of Doris Fischer has been told, in the Proceedings of the American Society for Psychical Research, 1 by Dr. Walter F. Prince, an American clergyman, and Dr. James Hyslop, the Secretary of that Society. It is a story of dissociated personality, more fully reported than any hitherto recorded, and in some respects unique. Dr. Prince’s record occupies over thirteen hundred pages and is the outcome of more prolonged and more continuous observation than is usually possible in such cases. His unusual opportunities for observing the many peculiarities described by him arose from his having, at an early stage of his investigation, adopted Doris as his daughter and brought her to live in his house. Dr. Hyslop’s share of the record consists of over eight hundred pages in which he advocates a spiritistic interpretation of some of the phenomena of multiple personality, and claims support for his views from a series of observations and experiments conducted with his medium, Mrs. Chenoweth, when Doris was the sitter.
