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Rewriting the Soul : Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory

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 patient...

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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Hacking, Ian (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Publié: Princeton : Princeton University Press, 2001.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Résumé: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.
Description matérielle:1 online resource (352 pages).
ISBN:9781400821686