Query: can the ‘alts’ of Second Life and other virtual worlds be akin to ‘alters’, the various alternative states of sufferers of Dissociative Identity Disorder and Multiple Personality Disorder?
Is the act of having several ‘alts’ a quasi-therapeutic way of dealing with those ‘alters’?
Prompted by listening to an episode of ABC Radio National’s superb show, ‘All in the Mind’.
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