Oneselves: Multiple Personalities, 1811-1981 (PDF)

By Louis Baldwin
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.

Product Details

Publisher ‏ : ‎ McFarland; Reprint edition (November 28, 2011)
Language ‏ : ‎ English
Paperback ‏ : ‎ 175 pages
ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0786467193
ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0786467198
Reading age ‏ : ‎ 18 years and up