Rewriting the Soul Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory

Name: Rewriting the Soul Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
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ISBN: 9780691059082

ISBN-10: 069105908X

ISBN-13: 9780691059082

Edition: 1995

Authors: Ian Hacking

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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, especially our power struggles about memory and…

Book details

List price: $48.00
Copyright year: 1995
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Publication date: 8/23/1998
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 352
Size: 6.10" wide x 9.21" long x 1.02" tall
Weight: 1.364

Ian Hacking is University Professor Emeritus at the University of Toronto. He holds the chair of Philosophy and History of Concepts at the College de France. Among his many books, the most recent is Rewriting the Soul.



Acknowledgments


Introduction



Is It Real?



What Is It Like?



The Movement



Child Abuse



Gender



Cause



Measure



Truth in Memory



Schizophrenia



Before Memory



Doubling of the Personality



The Very First Multiple Personality



Trauma



The Sciences of Memory



Memoro-Politics



Mind and Body



An Indeterminacy in the Past



False Consciousness


Notes


Bibliography


Index