Rewriting the Soul : Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory.

By:

Hacking, Ian [author.]

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.Description: 1 online resource (347 pages)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9781400821686
1400821681

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Rewriting the Soul : Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory.DDC classification:

153.12

LOC classification:

RC569.5.M8

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Summary: Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the "MPD" community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse.

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Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics accuse the "MPD" community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse.