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(parapsychology, rare) A sudden and profound change of an individual's personality, whether spontaneous or induced e.g. in hypnosis.

* {{quote-journal, passage=Mr. Soal declares that while the presence of certain persons is favorable to his duplication of personality and while some persons actually aid the prosopopesis , others have an inhibitive influence.

, publisher=American Society for Psychical Research , page=381 , title=Psychic research, Volume 23 , year=1929}}

* {{quote-book, passage=Later, French psychical researcher René Sudre (1880-1968) discussed what he referred to as prosopopesis or the nonconscious tendency to impersonate, as seen in mediumship, as well as in hypnosis, possession and cases of double and multiple personality.

, publisher=ABC-CLIO , page=105 , title=Altering Consciousness: Multidisiplinary Perspectives , author=Etzel Cardeña, Michael Winkelman , year=2011 , ISBN=0313383081, 9780313383083}}

* {{quote-book, passage=Walter is good-naturedly willing to be called a "secondary personality," a "hypnotic impersonation", a "mindkin" (C.D.Broad), a "prosopopesis " (Sudre) or "entelechy" (Driesch). In fact, he says, "You may call me anything but 'It'!"

, publisher=Ayer Publishing , page=94 , title=The case for and against psychical belief , author=Carl Allanmore Murchison , year=1975 , ISBN=0405070373, 9780405070372}}