| Description |
xi, 163 pages ; 23 cm |
| Contents |
Contents note continued: Can the punishment fit the crime? / William Milligan |
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Contents note continued: Four of his six personalities suffered from paralysis, but of different parts of his body / Victor Laval -- He could hardly have been a more "normal" type of person; but he fell and struck his head---and returned to infancy / Thomas Hanna -- Hers was a rare case of certified insanity / Mary Vaughn -- In this famous case, Sally made life miserable for Mary until Christine came along / Christine Beauchamp -- She nursed her mother through a long terminal illness and then escaped into another personality / Irene -- It's not easy for a quiet, diffident type to live in the same body with an incorrigible mischief-maker / Doris Fischer -- In one personality, she was an ordinary housewife with no particular literary talent; in the other, a literary genius / Patience Worth -- If Alice had been Spanish, there might never have been any need for Bonita. But Alice wasn't Spanish / Alice -- |
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Contents note continued: She was an intelligent, charming, apparently normal woman, but under the spell of automatic writing she became a whole cast of colorful characters / Violet -- The principal alternate personality was named Miss Dignity, with more than a touch of irony / Mabel -- What finally healed him, curiously enough, was the sudden memory of a pet monkey / John Charles Poultney -- Movies were an important part of her life, including home movies of her various personalities / Harriet -- In this celebrated case, the touch of a face proved disastrous / Chris Costner -- "Give me a minute," she heard her father tell his girlfriend, "to get rid of the brat." / Gloria -- Charlie was the boy she wanted to be / Carmen Garcia -- We often use the phrase, "a shattering experience," but for Sybil it was no mere metaphor / Sybil Dorsett -- At long last, thorough clinical testing was introduced / Jonah -- Can a cold shower be disintegrating? / Henry Hawksworth -- |
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Machine generated contents note: The manic can escape from the depressive / Mary Reynolds -- "Mr. Bourne's skull today still covers two distinct personal selves."-William James / Ansel Bourne -- If a pathological condition brings contentment, should a therapist interfere with it? / Alma -- Solid respectability cannot guarantee a solid personality / Joseph Hoover -- His dissociation, whatever its cause, was triggered by escaping gas / Peter Scott -- Even a successful businesswoman needs romance in her life / Helene Smith -- From the time of the railroad accident, his blackout lasted 17 years / Charles Warren -- The three personalities were quite different, yet all answered to the same name, and all were inveterate travelers / George Robertson -- Here was a man who could reply to his doctor's greeting, "How are you this morning?" with "I'm asleep; I've been asleep since eight o'clock." / John Kinsel -- |
| Notes |
Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Bibliography: pages 157-160 |
| Subject |
Multiple personality.
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| LC no. |
84042603 |
| ISBN |
0899501249 |
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