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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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