The Bifurcation of the Self The History and Theory of Dissociation and Its Disorders /

• Main Author: Rieber, Robert W. (Author)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Boston, MA : Springer US, 2006.
• Series: Library of the History of Psychology Theories
• Subjects: Psychology.; Clinical psychology.; Personality.; Social psychology.; Clinical Psychology.; History of Psychology.; Personality and Social Psychology.

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 wisd...

Table of Contents:

• A Brief History of Multiplicity
• The Roots of Multiple Personality Disorder/Dissociative Identity Disorder
• “Nothing but God and the Brain”
• Prying Open the Lid
• Looking Inside the Box, Thinking Outside the Box
• Sybil A Case of Multiple Personalities and the Natural History of a Myth
• The Case of Sybil
• The Publication of a “Psychiatric Masterpiece”
• The Myth Explodes
• Seminal Cases of Multiplicity A History
• Fourteen Seminal Cases
• Bifurcation of Self.