Recommendable! A historical account of multiple personality disorders and the beginnings of psychology/psychiatry! Or is it a history of quackery? Or a history of patients inventing their disorder, because it got them attention?
"... In the 1990s, a woman in Illinois sued her psychiatrist, the multiple personality disorder expert Bennett Braun, over his alleged role in making her believe, through years of hypnosis and heavy medication, that she developed more than 300 personalities. ...
Famous cases aside, some psychiatrists question the plausibility of reports describing people with 10, 20, or more different personalities, at least if the phenomenon is as common as some claim, and argue that cases are diagnosed at just a few institutions loyal to the idea. ...
Famous cases aside, some psychiatrists question the plausibility of reports describing people with 10, 20, or more different personalities, at least if the phenomenon is as common as some claim, and argue that cases are diagnosed at just a few institutions loyal to the idea. ...
One thing that psychiatrists on both sides of the debate can agree on is that pop culture references to the condition haven’t been particularly helpful ..."
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