The arrangement of the back seats and the direction that passengers are facing are also meaningful (see figure ####). Usually the passenger on the driver’s seat is preoccupied with the task and can pay less attention to what other passengers are thinking. As the driver is seated “upstream”, other passengers are not quite visible. The passengers who are located further “downstream” might take charge of driving less frequently, but can pay more attention to what the driver and other passengers are doing (unless they are “asleep”, of course). In the same way, the identity who is often in charge, such as the “host personality” often cannot grasp other identities’ presence while identity in the downstream, such as child personality that Allison called “ISH” (internal self helper) is pretty much aware of what is going on in the whole system and can be very insightful.
Allison, R, Schwarz, T (1980) Minds in many pieces: The making of a very special doctor Rawson, Wade Publishers; 1st edition.
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Passengers of the microbus have several missions: they generally agree with which direction the bus should go. They should share information that current driver get. They also need to avoid any accident in which the bus is damaged, or other cars are implicated. In order to achieve them, they need to establish some type of communication system among them. If these missions are accomplished, they can coexist peacefully and function efficiently.
In a same way, an individual with DID can live and function well if identities communicate and collaborate each other, and this is the general message of this microbus model.
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