AND A DUCK. Mary Jane urged me to quote a wonderful sentence from Paul Bloom’s article. The sentence is about the perhaps excessive diagnosis of multiple-personality disorders: “One woman got a settlement of more than $2 million after alleging that her psychotherapist had used suggestive memory ‘recovery’ techniques to convince her that she had more than 120 personalities, including children, angels, and a duck.â€
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How did I urge Phil? I read the article. There I was, standing there, near his office, reading it with interest. Suddenly, I was convulsed and weeping with laughter. He was puzzled. He didn’t remember this as an amusing article. What was I laughing at? I tried to tell him and started sputtering and weeping again. Then he remembered, “Oh, yeah, the duck.”