my alters already had names based on their jobs, purposes, reasons they were created. the names were part of their creation. some did not have names and we (my treatment providers and I) did not name them due to my locations laws about false memory syndrome and treatment is supposed to focus on healing not on causing a client to name, call out or other activities that can cause a client to do these things for the attention/pleasure of the treatment provider rather than working with what is and taking care of existing problems. when my treatment provider did encounter one with out a name that one remained nameless and we discussed them as "the nameless one that said this or did that" in short we stuck with the facts not adding fiction to it by placing names upon them that dont exist or is unknown at that moment.