Although both authors Maudsley and Myers both believe in the “double brain” Myers linked it to having a dual identity. Myer even went as far at studying an effect young boy.
Maudsley an influential psychologists, believes that the mind could only be understood from a “physiological point of view”(193). He did this by breaking it down into two types of mental disorders, “mania and melancholia”. Maudsley believed these mental disorders had two different side effects, making it double. One side includes, “exaggerated,” “exultant,” and “delusions”, Maudsley shows his readers how people with this disorder tend to inflate thing, are to happy, and mistake where they fall in society. The other side includes, “incapacity of attention...inefficient memory...and dullness of thought. The words “incapacity,” “inefficient,” and “dullness” suggest the mental inability to stay alert, not being able to remember, and thinking as fast.
Myers along with Maudsley believed in the dual identity, but unlike Maudsley Myers took his hypothesis and experiment with a young male patients Louis. Louis was left-handed and during this age left handed people were “sinister” ( Myers 200). This suggest that being some type of sin. In addition Myers quoted, “reached a lower degree of evolution” (Myers 200). Concluding that patient like Louis haven’t yet developed into a human can be accepted in society.
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