Oneselves: Multiple Personalities, 1811-1981 - Softcover

Baldwin, Louis

9780786467198: Oneselves: Multiple Personalities, 1811-1981

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0786467193 ISBN 13: 9780786467198

Publisher: McFarland, 2011

In the 1970s some 50 cases of multiple personality were reported; there had been 90 in the previous 150 years. This book presents 28 case histories, from the earliest identifiable case in 1811 to a widely publicized one in the 1980s. These fascinating histories illustrate a wide variety of symptoms and behavior--the very factors that make diagnosis so difficult. The cases show that the causes of multiple personality disorders can range from deep and complicated psychological traumas to a simple physical injury like a blow to the head. Associated phenomena include chronic sleepwalking, persistent time loss, epilepsy, automatic writing, hallucination and several kinds and degrees of amnesia.

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About the Author:

The late Louis Baldwin (February 14, 1919-April 21, 2006) worked as a technical writer for a scientific and engineering laboratory for twenty years before retiring to freelance writing. The author of several books, he lived in San Diego, California.

Review:

"immensely readable accounts of famous and not-so-famous cases of multiple personality"--Columbia Road Review.

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