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Title: Creating Hysteria Condition: New Subtitle: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder Author: Joan Acocella Format: Paperback EAN: 9780787947941 ISBN: 9780787947941 Publisher: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S. Genre: Medicine Release Date: 13/08/1999 Description: From 1985 to 1995 an estimated 40,000 Americans, most of themwomen, were told they suffered from multiple personality disorder.Feminists, fundamentalists, and a substantial portion of the mentalhealth community Andorsed this "Sybil-ing" of America.Sensation-seeking television talk shows took up the MPD rallyingcry. In Creating Hysteria, Joan Acocella tells a riveting tale oftherapists betraying their patients, of a psychotherapy professionat war within its own ranks, and finally of expatients rising upand putting an And to the MPD scandal. "Creating Hysteria exposes one of the most frightening mentalrollercoaster rides taken by thousands of people in modern times.Joan Acocella brilliantly illuminates how the mental healthprofession spearheaded, perhaps inadvertently, a fin-de-sieclehysteria, the fallout from which will take us into the nextmillennium. Anyone who has ever been interested in mental healthshould read this book."--Elizabeth Loftus, president, AmericanPsychological Society Language: English Country/Region of Manufacture: US Item Height: 245mm Item Length: 161mm Item Width: 21mm Item Weight: 429g Release Year: 1999
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