For more than a hundred years, dissociative states, sometimes
referred to as multiple personality disorder, have fascinated the
public as well as scientists. The precise nature of this disorder
is a controversial one, dividing clinicians, theorists, and
researchers. Challenging the conventional wisdom on all sides,
Robert Rieber s Bifurcation of the Self traces the clinical and
social history of dissociation in a provocative examination of this
widely debated phenomenon.
At the core of this history is a trio of related evolutions
hypnosis, concepts of identity, and dissociation beginning with
nineteenth-century "hysterics" and culminating in the modern boom
in Dissociative Identity Disorder (DID) diagnoses and the parallel
rise in childhood abuse/repressed memory cases. Rieber does not
argue the non-existence of DID; rather he asserts that it is a rare
disorder exaggerated by dissociation advocates and exploited by the
media. In doing so, he takes on some of the most difficult
questions in the field:
- How crucial is memory to a person s identity?
- Can two or more autonomous personalities actually exist in the
same body?
- If trauma causes dissociation, why aren t there more DID
cases?
- Why are DID cases prevalent in some eras but not in
others?
- Does dissociative disorder belong in the DSM?
The book is rigorously illustrated with two centuries worth of
famous cases including Christine Beauchamp, Ansel Bourne, Eve
Black/Eve White, and most notably the woman known as "Sybil," whose
story is covered in depth with newly revealed manuscripts. And
Rieber reviews the current state of DID-related controversy, from
the professionals who feel that the condition is underreported to
those who consider it a form of malingering, so that readers may
draw their own conclusions."
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