Ive seen the expression polyfragmented referring to multiples. What does that mean?
Again, this word was probably made up by Richard Kluft. It refers to the fact that some people in multiple systems are multiple in their own right. They have systems of their own. This is a very routine thing, but it seems that the more common and natural something is, the more the psychs have to make it sound like something out of Dr Frankenstein. Some multiples approve of the term and some do not. A few people tell us that their doctors said ‘polyfragmented’ simply for large-population groups — over a hundred. “Please send me all the information you have on the genetic origins of multiplicity.” There’s hardly anything. Most of what we have is anecdotal evidence. Most people doing research with multiples have not thought to ask for healthy, non-abused multiples; it’s simply assumed they don’t exist. There is psychoneurological research going on now but it’s in the very beginning stages.
