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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1921. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... THE JOURNAL OF ABNORMAL PSYCHOLOGY VOL. XV JUNE--SEPTEMBER, 1920 NUMBERS 2-3 ORIGINAL ARTICLES MISS BEAUCHAMP THE THEORY OF THE PSYCHOGENESIS OF MULTIPLE PERSONALITY BY MORTON PRINCE I "SALLY" An Alternating and Coconscious Personality 1. Foreword: The Data. A NUMBER of years ago (1908) I published a study of the Beauchamp case (The Dissociation of a Personality). It was one of multiple personality and exhibited three different personalities alternating with one another. One of them, however, "Sally," besides alternating with the others, had a coconscious existence, in that she persisted as a self, i. e. a separate mental system possessing a differentiated self-consciousness, while each of the others was present. Thus there were two selves existing at one and the same moment, one coconscious to the other. The account as published was largely limited to a study from a descriptive point of view of the numerous psychological phenomena of all sorts manifested by the case and to the reconstruction of the normal self out of the disintegrated fragments. The discussion of the theoretic problems involved was deferred for a later volume. This had been nearly completed some years ago, when it seemed best to postpone the discussion until certain fundamental problems were studied. Accordingly these studies were incorporated in a volume, "The Unconscious," published in 1914. Then Copyright 1921 b Richard G. Badger. All Rights Reserved. came the outbreak of the war and since then the manuscript has been laid aside owing to other interests which, I imagine, the war brought to all of us. While the literature is fairly rich with descriptive accounts of multiple personality, the psychogenesis of this phenomena has not received much attention, probably owing to the difficulties inv...
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- PublisherGeneral Books LLC
- Publication date2012
- ISBN 10 0217592694
- ISBN 13 9780217592697
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages174
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