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Beware of the other side(s) : multiple personality disorder and dissociative identity disorder in American fiction /

This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder. This syndrome comprehends the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take contr...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Schwarz, Heike (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Bielefeld : Transcript, [2013]
Colección:American studies (Transcript (Firm)) ; Bd. 8.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • 1 Personalities or Personality States?
  • 2 The Split of Personality:
  • 3 Of Demons and Dissociation:
  • 4 Shock and Trauma:
  • 5 The Other Side(s):
  • 6 Voices of Doubt:
  • 7 Brand Identity and "Culture-embedded Syndrome":
  • 8 Creating a Public Consciousness:
  • 9 Fractured Minds:
  • 10 "Man's Dual Nature"
  • Classical Literary Texts of Dissociation:
  • 11 Beyond Control:
  • 12 Further Divisions:
  • 13 "What is your name?":
  • 14 "This is what Mary would have said ... ":
  • 15 "I know this because Tyler Durden knows this ... ":
  • 16 "
  • textbook MPD":
  • 17 "Three! Three personalities in one ... ":
  • 18 "Recall what had been lost ... ":
  • 19 "It's almost like there are two of me ... ":
  • 20 "It's all staged ... ":
  • 21 Voices of Imagination:
  • Conclusion
  • Works Cited
  • Filmography.