The Walter Franklin Prince Doris Case

Record summary

Walter Franklin Prince documented the “Doris” case, involving a young woman whose reported secondary personality and unusual communications attracted psychical-research attention. Prince treated the material as a difficult boundary case between dissociation, subconscious activity, and possible paranormal information. It matters for comparison with automatic writing, multiple personality narratives, and early attempts to preserve clinical documentation within psychical research. The case’s identity, chronology, and evidential interpretation are easy to distort in summaries, so researchers should consult Prince’s original report and subsequent critiques.