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Noun: "(psychology, informal) the personas sharing the body of a human with multiplicity as a collective"

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  • 1995, Stephen E. Braude, First Person Plural: Multiple Personality and the Philosophy of Mind, revised edition, Lanham, Md., London: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, →ISBN, page 56:
    But that alter often turns out to be relatively recent and fairly peripheral in the multiple's total system of alters.
  • 2017, “A New Therapist”, in Patricia Frankish, Valerie Sinason, editors, Holistic Therapy for People with Dissociative Identity Disorder, London: Karnac Books, →ISBN, page 79:
    Rosie's courage allowed her to engage with me quickly and soon provided reassurance to others in the system that I was safe and non-abusive. Soon after, a number of other alters made themselves known to me. [] I was initially very worried that I would offend the system by missing when switches occurred, or even misidentify who was present with me.
  • c. 2012, Megan Sullivan, "'Multiple Systems' versus Dissociative Identity Disorder: Life-Style or Mental Illness?", paper submitted to Lycoming College, page 3:
    The system consists of nine individuals sharing the 29 year-old female body of Jennifer Lee Combies.
  • 2017, Gergő Ribáry, László Lajtai, Zsolt Demetrovics, & Aniko Maraz, "Multiplicity: An Explorative Interview Study on Personal Experiences of People with Multiple Selves", Frontiers in Psychology:
    Her system started when she was 17 years old: “We were not created by trauma. It started from being a singlet (one body, one person), but then, we lost our sense of self. []
  • 2020, Tynan Drake, "Intersectional Representation: LGBTQ+ and neurodiverse voices in transmedia fiction", paper submitted to Ball State University, page 36:
    Littles [child personas] are commonly the oldest and most knowledgable members of the system.
  • 2021, Zarah Eve & Sarah Parry, "Exploring the experiences of young people with multiplicity", Youth and Policy:
    Personal experiences shared by respondents highlighted one focus of therapeutic intervention which currently aims to integrate the different ‘headmates’ (parts of the system).