| Description |
1 online resource (xix, 304 pages) : illustrations |
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Library of the history of psychological theories |
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Library of the history of psychological theories.
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| Contents |
Introduction -- I.A brief history of multiplicity -- Chapter 1. The roots of multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder -- Seizures, Hysteria, and Dissociation: Making Sense of Mind and Brain -- Early Case Histories: Looking for Ansel Bourne in All the Wrong Places -- The Neurophysiology of the Inhibition-Excitation Continuum -- Pierre Janet -- F.W. Myers -- Morton Prince -- Boris Sidis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. "Nothing but god and the brain" -- A Brief Look Back -- Nothing but God and the Brain -- What Did Gall Actually Believe -- Faculties in the Brain: How Much Is Enough? -- Chapter 3. Prying open the lid: the origins of hypnosis -- Animal Magnetism and Its Links to MPD -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Looking inside the box, thinking onside the box -- Freud and Hypnosis: Uncovering False Memories -- The Free Association Technique -- Overdetermination -- Repression -- Sexuality -- II. Sybil: A case of multiple personalities and the natural history of a myth -- Chapter 5. The case of Sybil: the Wilbur/Schrieber version -- Chapter 6. The publication of a "psychiatric masterpiece" -- Prelude to a Mystery -- The Publication of Sybil -- The Aftermath -- The Book and the Movie: A Comparison -- Chapter 7. The myth explodes -- The Multiplicity of Multiples -- The Forgotten Tapes -- Flora -- An Analyst on Park Avenue -- The Criminal Illusion of an Experimental Principle: The Primal Scene -- The Trinity of Affinity -- What Hypnosis Is-and Is Not -- The Crucible of the Sixties -- Highlights and the Implications of the Tape Recordings -- The Reaction -- Who Is Sybil and What Is She? -- Conclusion -- III: Seminal cases of multiplicity: a history -- Chapter 8. Fourteen seminal cases -- Mary Reynolds -- Rachel Baker -- Mollie Fancher -- Ansel Bourne -- Felida X -- Marceline -- Mary Beauchamp -- Helene Smith -- Thomas Hanna -- Doris Fischer -- Norma -- John Charles Poultney -- Bridey Murphy -- Eve White/Chris Costner -- Chapter 9. Bifurcation of self: retrospective and prospective -- References -- Appendices -- 1. Three Tape Excerpts -- 2. Excerpt from the TV movie Sybil -- 3. Sybil's Letter of Denial to Dr. Corneila Wilbur and Sybil's IQ Report -- 4. Schreiber's PR Bio and Dr. Ralph Allison's Letter -- Name index -- Subject index -- Last page |
| Summary |
For more than a hundred years, dissociative states, sometimes referred to as multiple personality disorder, have fascinated the public as well as scientists. The precise nature of this disorder is a controversial one, dividing clinicians, theorists, and researchers. Challenging the conventional wisdom on all sides, Robert Rieber's Bifurcation of the Self traces the clinical and social history of dissociation in a provocative examination of this widely debated phenomenon. At the core of this history is a trio of related evolutions--hypnosis, concepts of identity, and dissociation--beginning with nineteenth-century "hysterics" and culminating in the modern boom in Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) diagnoses and the parallel rise in childhood abuse/repressed memory cases. Rieber does not argue the non-existence of DID; rather he asserts that it is a rare disorder exaggerated by dissociation advocates and exploited by the media. In doing so, he takes on some of the most difficult questions in the field: How crucial is memory to a person's identity? Can two or more autonomous personalities actually exist in the same body? If trauma causes dissociation, why aren't there more DID cases? Why are DID cases prevalent in some eras but not in others? Does dissociative disorder belong in the DSM? The book is rigorously illustrated with two centuries' worth of famous cases including Christine Beauchamp, Ansel Bourne, Eve Black/Eve White, and most notably the woman known as "Sybil", whose story is covered in depth with newly revealed manuscripts. And Rieber reviews the current state of DID-related controversy, from the professionals who feel that the condition is underreported to those who consider it a form of malingering, so that readers may draw their own conclusions |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202) |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| In |
Springer e-books |
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Schreiber, Flora Rheta |
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Wilbur, C. B |
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Mason, Shirley, 1923-1998 |
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Wilbur, C. B. cct |
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Mason, Shirley, 1923-1998. cct |
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Schreiber, Flora Rheta. cct |
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Dissociative disorders.
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Dissociation (Psychology)
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Personality.
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Dissociative Disorders
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Personality
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PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology.
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Dissociation (Psychology)
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Personality.
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Multiple Personality Disorder -- United States. -- History.
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Multiple Personality Disorder -- psychology -- United States.
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Ego -- United States.
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History, 19th Century -- United States.
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History, 20th Century -- United States.
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Hypnosis -- United States.
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Psychological Theory -- United States.
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Repression -- United States.
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Dissociative disorders.
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Dissociation (Psychology)
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Dissociative disorders
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Personality
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Dissociatieve identiteitsstoornis.
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Hysterie.
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Hypnose.
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| LC no. |
2005928493 |
| ISBN |
9780387274133 |
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0387274138 |
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0387274146 |
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9780387274140 |
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6610613656 |
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9786610613656 |
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1280613653 |
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9781280613654 |
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