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Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Ian Hacking
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Description for Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Paperback. 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. This book scrutinizes today's moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory. Num Pages: 352 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: JMS; MMH; MMJ. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (U) Tertiary Education (US: College). Dimension: 234 x 157 x 21. Weight in Grams: 564.
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 to scrutinize today's moral and political climate, ... Read more
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 to scrutinize today's moral and political climate, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Princeton University Press United States
Number of pages
346
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Weight
568g
Number of Pages
352
Place of Publication
New Jersey, United States
ISBN
9780691059082
SKU
V9780691059082
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About Ian Hacking
Ian Hacking is University Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. Among his numerous works are The Taming of Chance and Representing and Intervening.
Reviews for Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Winner of the 1995 Pierre Janet Writing Award, International Society for the Study of Dissociation "In this brilliant and provocative new book, Ian Hacking fixes his searching gaze on the hot topic of multiple personality. The results are remarkable... In Hacking's hands, multiple personality emerges as a paradigmatic case study illuminating basic questions about truth, memory, fact and fiction, about ... Read more