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Rita Carter:
To understand that there is no core self. To stop this crazy quest for the real you - it doesn't exist.

Rita Carter, author of the book Multiplicity…

I believe that all of us are many different people; we have a group of people within us. But most of those people can remember being each other and that is the only thing that makes us different from somebody with multiple personality disorder. And because we have different personalities in different situations it makes us very flexible - so it's not such a bad thing.

You have a sense of this I'm sure. You act different ways in different situations and with different people.

I think if you ask most people how they saw themselves they would say, "Oh well, yeah I've got lots of different sides to me, but inside I'm kind of solid." Because that's how it does feel. What I'm saying is, well, no actually there isn't anything in the middle that stays the same. All those different (what you call "sides" of you) really are best seen as different personalities - as quite separate. That's not an opinion. Iif you look at the psychological experiments - they show that there are ways of thinking, there are ways of feeling and there are ways of reacting - all these things change in different situations.

Tomorrow, where our different personalities come from - I'm Mike Carruthers and that's Something You Should Know.