“奥古斯都”的故事——赛斯解析多重人格障碍的经典案例（下）

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 “奥古斯都”的故事（上）

“奥古斯都”的故事（中）

在你们的社会里，没有一个真正适当的架构可以给予像奥古斯都这样的人任何有效的治疗。

一个精神分析师也许认为奥古斯都患了精神分裂症，并简单划一地给他贴上了标签，但这种名称基本上是没有意义的。如果经过一段时间，这个分析师能让奥古斯都相信他现在的状况是由过去某个特定的压抑事件造成的，如果这个分析师又是个有直觉力而善解人意的人，那么奥古斯都也许会充分改变他的信念，从而达成某种“治愈”。于是，他会很便利地记起那样一个压抑事件，而当他重新体验它时表现出预期的情绪。很不幸，在他目前的状况下，因为没有奥古斯都第二，无能为力的他可能只是请来他的“另一个自我”，好让这位好医生瞧瞧，他可不是一个可以玩弄的人。

那么，要做的事是去帮助奥古斯都面对他另一个自己行为的后果，以使他能够接受那另一个自己作为他整体身份的一部分。

当奥古斯都第二掌管身体时，身体的化学组成发生了很大变化，与奥古斯都平常的荷尔蒙状态相比有着显著差异。运作的信念发生转换引起了化学变化，而不是相反。

如果在奥古斯都第二体内制造出化学变化，他会回到奥古斯都第一的人格，但这种改变是人为的——不是永久性的，而且可能相当危险。

那些通过化学方法抑制住的倾向在某种程度上被药物强行掩盖了。然而，问题依旧存在，而且很可能会导致明显的自杀倾向；或者导致更为隐蔽的自杀倾向，使重要的器官受到攻击。

有时候，这种案例会在另一个框架内被处理，在那个框架里，只要奥古斯都第二接管时，奥古斯都就会被认为是被一个独立的“邪恶”之物附体了。现在，同样的，如果奥古斯都不知怎地改变了他的信念，那么，即使在那个框架内也可能达成某种治愈。但与此同时，各种危险和困难将使这样一种治愈变得不太可能。

如果一位行医者相信奥古斯都被附体了，而后说服奥古斯都也相信了这个“事实”，那么，他们联合的强烈信念可能会在一段时间内有效。让奥古斯都相信他处于一个邪灵的主宰之下，这是第一步。第二步，至少可以跟进的是，干掉那个入侵者。问题是，在那个框架内行事时，自我结构被进一步削弱了，因为奥古斯都第二在正常情况下被压抑的特质被永远地否定了。那么，奥古斯都必须永远是“好”的，然而，他会永远感觉自己很容易再受到这样一个邪灵的入侵。如刚才所说的同样结果也有可能出现：有自杀倾向或其他自我毁灭行为的增长。

幸运的是，人类的身心远比我们一向认为的更有弹性、韧性与创造力。许多像奥古斯都这样的案例从未曝光。那些人疗愈了他们自己。有时候，这种疗愈是在这样一个人选择去经历一次创伤经验时达成的——常常，这人格的一部分相当蓄意地谋划此事，而另一部分则闭上眼睛假装看不到。这些事件看起来可能是灾难或近乎灾难，但它们却使整个人格为了存活而充分动员起来。在一个极为危险的紧张时刻，人格也许会把自己重新统合起来。

这种“危机统合”的经历通常不会涉及长期的病痛，虽然也可能会，但通常涉及的是严重事故之类的事件。比如说，这种困难可能会被外化为一条残肢，而非一个残破的 “自己”，而当身体被修复时，信念的必要同化也发生了。

在这种案例里，有各种不同的类型与阶段。每个个体都是独一无二的。有时候，那框架包括另一种疗愈方法，在其中，这个人相互冲突的两面各有一部分断裂开来，形成一个更清晰的心理结构，而这个心理结构可以与其他两方沟通，充当仲裁者，调和每一方所持有的对立信念。

这种过程进行了很多次，而主人格却没有意识到真正发生了什么。有时候自动书写或灵应盘会被用到。两者都是发现隐形的有意识信念的方法——那些隐形信念有时候被你有意识地接受，而有时则被故意忽略了。

当使用这种方法的人被告知，他们的自动书写是透过一个恶魔、魔鬼或邪灵而来时，那么，那些隐形的信念就被推得更远了。任何对心智的探索都会变得可怕而危险，因为它可能导致这种进一步的“入侵”。

现在，这种入侵通常是先前不能接受的信念突然出现——那些信念是相当有意识却看不见、被隐藏起来了，然后突然以外来者的身份出现。在大部分的例子里，附体的概念使这种入侵更令人不安了。常常，比较容易面对的观念是，必然是另一个存有或生灵要为那些想法负责。在所有与奥古斯都有类似经历的案例里，问题都在于未同化的信念。然而，那些信念除了以这种比较激烈的行为来表达以外，也能透过身体的各个部位表达出来。不幸的是，一个主要处理症状的医疗系统只会鼓励患者把这类信念投射到新的器官上，好比说，当患者已经在手术中牺牲了其他器官之后。

解决之道就在有意识的头脑里——这一点我再怎么强调也不过分——在你所接受的那些关于实相的本质，尤其是关于你存在的本质的信念里。

虽然最基本的工作必须由“个人”来完成，但你总是可以从各种来源获得帮助，包括来自内在和外在的帮助。你真的会诠释并利用几乎任何对你有帮助的数据，这将是非常有效的——除非你的信念可能让你认为，每个人都在跟你作对，或者自己已无可救药，或者你不配得到帮助。当然，其他类似的想法也会使你远离帮助，但只要可能，你就会本能地寻找帮助并加以利用。

未完待续

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SESSION 629, NOVEMBER 29, 1972,
9:28 P.M. WEDNESDAY

There is no real adequate framework in your society in which peoplelike Augustus can be treated with any effectiveness.

An analyst might consider Augustus as schizophrenic and label him neatly, but such terms are basically meaningless. If the analyst, over a period of time, should convince Augustus that his condition in the present resulted from some specific inhibited event in the past, and if the analyst was an intuitive and understanding man, then Augustus might change his beliefs enough so that some kind of “cure” was worked. He would then conveniently remember such an event and display the expected emotions as he re-experienced it. Unfortunately in his present state, powerless as it were without Augustus Two, he might also simply call on his “alter ego” to show the good doctor that he was no one to trifle with.

Then there would be the matter of helping Augustus to face the implications of his other-self’s behavior in such a way that he could accept it as a portion of his whole identity.

When Augustus Two was in control of the body the chemical makeup varied considerably. It showed significant differences over Augustus’s usual hormonal status. The chemical changes were caused by the transition in beliefs that operated, and not the other way around.

If chemical alteration were made in Augustus Two he would return to the Augustus One personality, but the change would be artificial — not permanent, and possibly quite dangerous.

The chemically inhibited tendencies would to some extent be forcefully blanketed through medication. The problem would remain, though, and it is quite possible that overt suicidal tendencies could result; or more insidious hidden suicidal inclinations, where vital organs would be attacked.

Sometimes such cases are handled within another framework, in which Augustus would be considered possessed by an independent “evil” entity whenever Augustus Two took over. Now again, if Augustus somehow changed his beliefs it is possible that even within that framework some kind of cure would be effected. But at the same time the dangers and difficulties would make such a cure relatively impossible.

If a practitioner who believed that Augustus was possessed then convinced Augustus of the “fact,” their joint charged beliefs might possibly work for a while. Convincing Augustus that he was under the domination of an evil entity would be step one. Step two, getting rid of the intruder, could at least follow. The trouble is that working within that framework, the self-structure is further weakened, for the normally repressed characteristics of Augustus Two are forever denied. Augustus must then always be “good,” and yet he would always feel vulnerable to another such invasion of evil. The same results as those given could be possible: the growth of suicidal tendencies or other self-destructive behavior.

Luckily the human mind and body are far more flexible, durable and creative than ever given credit for. Many cases like Augustus’s never come to light. The individuals involved cure themselves. Sometimes this is done when such a person chooses to undergo a traumatic experience — often one part of the personality will plan this quite deliberately while the other portion closes its eyes. These events can seem to be disasters or near disasters, and yet they can sufficiently mobilize the entire personality for survival’s sake. In a moment of high critical tension the personality may put itself together again.

Such critical-uniting episodes usually do not involve long sickness, though they may, but instead events such as bad accidents. The difficulty may be exteriorized as a broken limb, for example, instead of a broken self, and as the body is repaired the necessary assimilation of belief takes place.

There are various kinds and stages in such cases. Each individual is unique. Sometimes the framework includes another method of cure, in which portions of each conflicting side of the personality break off to form a clearer psychological structure which can communicate with the other two, act as a referee, and reconcile the opposing beliefs held by each.

This is done many times without the main personality realizing what is really going on. On occasion automatic writing is utilized, or the Ouija board. Both are methods to uncover invisible conscious beliefs — that are accepted by you consciously at any given time, say, and deliberately ignored at another given time.

When people using such methods are told that their writing comes through from a demon or the devil, or an evil spirit, then those invisible beliefs are shoved farther away. Any search into the mind becomes frightening and dangerous, since it might lead to further such “invasion.”

Now such invasion is usually the sudden appearance of previously unacceptable beliefs, quite conscious but invisible, tucked away. Then they suddenly appear as alien. In most instances the possession concept makes it all the more upsetting. Easier to face, often, is the idea that the responsibility for such ideas must belong to another entity or being. In all cases of this nature involving Augustus-type episodes, the problem is one of unassimilated beliefs. Instead of such comparatively drastic behavior, however, such beliefs can be expressed through various parts of the body. Unfortunately, a system of medicine that largely deals with symptoms only encourages a patient to project such beliefs on new organs, for instance, after already sacrificing others in operations.

The solutions lie in the conscious mind — I cannot emphasize this too strongly — and in those beliefs that you accept about the nature of reality and, specifically, about the nature of your being.

While the most basic work must be done by the individual, help is always available from a variety of sources, both within and without. You will literally interpret and use almost any data that comes to you as helpful, and it will be highly effective — unless your beliefs lead you to think, perhaps, that everyone is against you, or that you are beyond help, or that you do not deserve it. Other such ideas can also close you off from help, of course, but you will instinctively look for it and use it when possible.