1980s-1990s (and earlier!)Media Accounts
of Multiple Personality
Here are many newspaper and magazine accounts describing multiple personality. These are the items we collected in our search for information after realizing that "multiple personalities" described our lifelong experience of many selves sharing a body.
Allie Shand, 1897 London Daily Mail
Allie Shand, 1905 New York Times
Nancy Ross 1984
Jennifer& circa 1990
Quiet Storm 1993
Juanita Maxwell 1981
Juanita Maxwell 1988
Sarah 1990
Juanita Maxwell 1991
Juanita Maxwell 2006
Billy Milligan 1978
Truddi Chase 1987, Washington Post
Truddi Chase 1987, Seattle Post-Intelligencer
Truddi Chase 1990, St. Paul Pioneer Press
RaLynne 1998
Sandra&
Jay& 1991
Gloria Steinem 1993
The ISH - Angel or Artifact
Streaming Audio
These are fairly large files and take several minutes to open. Please be patient. Sorry about the sound quality.
"Living with a Multiple Personality" -- Geraldo Rivera interviews Chris Costner-Sizemore, Nancy Lynn Pierson, and Dr. Robert Mayer, sometime in 1987
Chris Costner-Sizemore and the Lawsuit, Entertainment Tonight, 1988
Sally Jessy Raphael interviews Hannah, Jere & her mother, Sherry and Doug, ca. 1990 Dr. Lillian Gross, Hannah and Sherry's doctor, subsequently had her license suspended for five years after being found guilty of negligence and failure to keep medical records. However, she is practicing again now and is involved in the emotional freedom technique" movement. She was also one of the doctors interviewed for BBC's Horizon segment on multiplicity, Mistaken Identity.
Geraldo Rivera interviews Linda, Jane, Dr. Mohan Nair and Jill Cannon, ACSW.
We have tapes of Truddi Chase and some of the CBS News reports on the Sarah trial, and as soon as we find them, they'll be up too.
If you have tapes of TV coverage on multiple personality -- interview shows, 20-20 documentaries or whatever -- please write to us and let us know.
