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In 1989 Elizabeth Carlson, a Minneapolis housewife, went to a psychotherapist for help with depression. Before long the therapist suggested to her that perhaps her problem was actually multiple personality disorder (MPD), a condition that according to the  »experts » was connected to childhood abuse. With coaching from the therapist and under heavy medication Carlson soon came up with more than twenty five personalities, including Wild Child, Sister Mary Margaret, and Little Miss Fluff. Horrifying abuse memories invaded her consciousness. She had been molested, she said, by her parents, her grandparents, her great grandparents. Her family was part of a satanic cult. They raped and killed. They aborted babies and ate the afterbirth. Or did they?In Creating Hysteria Joan Acocella tells how, over the past three decades, thousands of women seeking help for various psychological problems were told that they had multiple personality disorder and were sucked into this nightmarish therapy. In session after session, under their therapists prompting, they produced  »memories » and screaming reenactments of childhood victimization. Asked to search within themselves for hidden personalities, they came up with entire squadrons: children, harlots, angels, devils. Prior to the 1970s, multiple personality disorder was considered an exotically rare condition. But beginning in the 1980s, an estimated 40,000 people, most of them women, had been initiated into this newly popular disorder.This groundbreaking book describes how a group of reckless therapists used hypnosis, drugs, and sheer persuasion to mold their patients symptoms into multiple personality disorder. While these practitioners were publishing books and running workshops on how to  »spot » MPD, the patients were languishing in hospitals in some cases for years. They sacrificed their marriages, their jobs. Some even lost their children.Creating Hysteria analyzes the forces that fed into the MPD epidemic: media se

Langue

en

Version

Broché

Date de sortie initiale

13 août 1999

Nombre de pages

214

Illustrations

Non

Personnes impliquées

Auteur principal

Joan Acocella

Deuxième auteur

Joan Ross Acocella

Editeur principal

Jossey-Bass Inc Pub

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Nom du fabricant

Wiley-VCH GmbH

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Boschstrasse 12 | 69469| Weinheim| DE

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15 mm

Hauteur du produit

15 mm

Largeur d’emballage

156 mm

Largeur du produit

156 mm

Livre d‘étude

Non

Longueur d’emballage

230 mm

Longueur du produit

230 mm

Poids de l’emballage

348 g

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Non

EAN

EAN

9780787947941

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Médecine générale

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Psychologie populaire

Services de santé

Psychologie clinique

Neurologie et Neurophysiologie clinique

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Langue

Anglais

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Paperback