The Myth of Sanity Paperback - 2002
by Martha Stout
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This study of a common, but mostly invisible dementia--traumatic memories--explores the profoundly fragmented nature of human awareness and offers a new understanding about the role played by traumatic memories in day-to-day life.
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Details
- Title The Myth of Sanity
- Author Martha Stout
- Binding Paperback
- Edition Reissue
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 288
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Publishing Group, New York
- Date 2002
- Features Index, Table of Contents
- Bookseller's Inventory # 3096ah
- ISBN 9780142000557 / 0142000558
- Weight 0.49 lbs (0.22 kg)
- Dimensions 7.82 x 5.08 x 0.62 in (19.86 x 12.90 x 1.57 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
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Themes
- Topical: Health & Fitness
- Library of Congress subjects Post-traumatic stress disorder, Adult child abuse victims
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 00043994
- Dewey Decimal Code 616.852
Summary
Why does a gifted psychiatrist suddenly begin to torment his own beloved wife? How can a ninety-pound woman carry a massive air conditioner to the second floor of her home, install it in a window unassisted, and then not remember how it got there? Why would a brilliant feminist law student ask her fiancé to treat her like a helpless little girl? How can an ordinary, violence-fearing businessman once have been a gun-packing vigilante prowling the crime districts for a fight?
A startling new study in human consciousness, The Myth of Sanity is a landmark book about forgotten trauma, dissociated mental states, and multiple personality in everyday life. In its groundbreaking analysis of childhood trauma and dissociation and their far-reaching implications in adult life, it reveals that moderate dissociation is a normal mental reaction to pain and that even the most extreme dissociative reaction-multiple personality-is more common than we think. Through astonishing stories of people whose lives have been shattered by trauma and then remade, The Myth of Sanity shows us how to recognize these altered mental states in friends and family, even in ourselves.
A startling new study in human consciousness, The Myth of Sanity is a landmark book about forgotten trauma, dissociated mental states, and multiple personality in everyday life. In its groundbreaking analysis of childhood trauma and dissociation and their far-reaching implications in adult life, it reveals that moderate dissociation is a normal mental reaction to pain and that even the most extreme dissociative reaction-multiple personality-is more common than we think. Through astonishing stories of people whose lives have been shattered by trauma and then remade, The Myth of Sanity shows us how to recognize these altered mental states in friends and family, even in ourselves.
From the publisher
First line
We are all a little crazy.
