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Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder Paperback - 1999 - 1st Edition
by Acocella, Joan
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- Title Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder
- Author Acocella, Joan
- Binding Paperback
- Edition number 1st
- Edition 1
- Condition Used - Acceptable
- Pages 228
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Jossey-Bass, San Francisco
- Date 1999
- Features Bibliography, Index
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0787947946I5N00
- ISBN 9780787947941 / 0787947946
- Weight 0.92 lbs (0.42 kg)
- Dimensions 9.34 x 6.28 x 0.82 in (23.72 x 15.95 x 2.08 cm)
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Themes
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Library of Congress subjects Multiple personality, False memory syndrome
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 99006358
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.852
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In late 1989 Elizabeth Carlson, a thirty-five-year-old woman who lived with her husband and two children in a Minneapolis suburb, was in the hospital being treated for severe depression.
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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
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Citations
- Booklist, 09/15/1999, Page 207
- Library Journal, 10/01/1999, Page 116
- New York Times, 11/21/1999, Page 82
- New Yorker (The), 12/20/1999, Page 99
- Publishers Weekly, 08/09/1999, Page 331