Self-naming

A discussion of "On Speaking of Oneself by Name," by Dennis Farrell, M.D. and Michael Hoyt, Ph.D. Drs. Farrell and Hoyt are to be complimented for a careful effort at intensive case study. Their paper indicates that a semi-quantitative approach can be used to check out the prevalence of an apparent pattern. Their counting approach provides a useful buttress to their clinical impressions. They have taken on a difficult topic and illuminated it. Two salient questions to such self-naming are addressed: (1) In what context is this phenomenon most frequent? (2) In which people is this phenomenon most likely to occur?