carmine emulsion and paper on handtied acryic vase 20 x 14 cm

THE THREE FACES OF EVE 1957

a film noir mystery starring Joanne Woodward directed by Nunnally Johnson

in which EVE WHITE is seen by a psychiatrist for headaches and amnesiac blanks

and diagnosed with dissociative personality disorder.

“You don’t know how wonderful it is to go to bed at night and know that it will be you that wakes up the next day,”

Mrs. Sizemore said in an interview in The New York Post in 1975.

The script was based on the experiences of Mrs Sizemore and she wrote a memoir

I’m Eve and a follow up A mind of My Own.

Psychiatrists believe that dissociation is a defence mechanism: a reaction to severe childhood trauma or prolonged physical, emotional or sexual abuse.

IN the movie Dr. Luther eventually prompts her to remember a traumatic event in her childhood. Her grandmother had died when she was six, and according to family custom, relatives were supposed to kiss the dead person at the viewing, making it easier for them to let go. While Eve screams, her mother forces her to kiss the corpse.

JEAN LUC GODARD ON THE DICK CAVETT SHOW 1980