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Contents ( 33)
  1. The minds of Billy Milligan
  2. Acknowledgments
  3. Preface
  4. The People Inside
  5. The Mix-Up Time
  6. Chapter One
  7. Chapter Two
  8. Chapter Three
  9. Chapter Four
  10. Chapter Five
  11. Chapter Six
  12. Becoming The Teacher
  13. Chapter Seven
  14. Chapter Eight
  15. Chapter Nine
  16. Chapter Ten
  17. Chapter Eleven
  18. Chapter Twelve
  19. Chapter Thirteen
  20. Chapter Fourteen
  21. Chapter Fifteen
  22. Chapter Sixteen
  23. Chapter Seventeen
  24. Chapter Eighteen
  25. Chapter Nineteen
  26. Beyond madness
  27. Chapter Twenty
  28. Chapter Twenty-One
  29. Chapter Twenty-Two
  30. Chapter Twenty-Three
  31. Epilogue
  32. Afterword
  33. Author’s Note

“Where do you mean?” she asked. “Here in this room, or in this building?”

He shook his head. “Some of the other patients asked me why I’m in this hospital.”

“Maybe Dorothy Turner can explain it to you when she comes to do your testing,” she said.

That evening, after his testing session with Dorothy Turner was over, he wouldn’t talk to anyone. He ran into his room and went to the bathroom to wash his face. A few seconds later,

Danny heard his front door open and close. He looked out and saw a young woman patient named Dorine. Though he often listened to her problems sympathetically and talked about his own, he had no other interest in her.

“Why are you here?” he asked.

“I wanted to talk to you. Why did you get so upset tonight?” “You know you can’t come in here. Its against the rules.” “But you look so depressed.”

“I found out what someone did. Its terrible. I’m not fit to live. ” Just then footsteps approached, followed by a knock on the door. Dorine jumped into the bathroom with him and closed the door behind her.

“What’d you do that for?” he whispered harshly. “I’ll get into worse trouble. Now it’ll be a mess. ’

She giggled.

“All right, Billy and Dorine!” Nurse Jaeger called. “You two can come out whenever you’re ready.”

In the nurses’ notes for April 9, 1979, Nurse Yaeger wrote:

Mr. Milligan—found in his bathroom with female peer—light off—When questioned about this stated he needed to be alone to talk to her about something he found out he did—Related with questioning that during his psychological testing this evening with Mrs. Turner, he learned he had raped three women. Became very tearful, saying he wanted “Ragen and Adalana to die.” Dr. George called—incident explained. Placed in special care room and on special precautions. Few minutes later patient observed sitting on bed with bathrobe tie in hand. Still tearful, saying he wanted to kill them. After speaking to him for a while he gave up bathrobe tie. Prior to doing this placed around neck.

In her testing, Dorothy Turner discovered significant IQ variation among the different personalities:

VERBAL IQ

PERFORMANCE

FULL SCALE

Allen

105

130

120

Ragen

114

120

119

David

68

72

69

Danny

69

75

71

Tommy

81

96

87

Christopher

98

108

102

Christene was too young to be tested, Adalana would not come out and Arthur declined to take the IQ portion of the tests, saying it was beneath his dignity.

Turner discovered that Dannys Rorschach responses revealed poorly concealed hostility and a need for external support to offset the feelings of inferiority and inadequacy. Tommy showed more maturity than Danny and more potential for acting out. He had the most schizoid characteristics and the least concern for others. Ragen showed the most potential for violent acting out.

Arthur she found strongly intellectual, and she felt he relied on this to maintain his position of direction over the others. He also appeared to her to maintain a compensatory feeling of superiority to the world at large, but had feelings of uneasiness and was threatened by emotionally stimulating situations. Emotionally, Allen appeared to be an almost detached personality.