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Author Rieber, R. W. (Robert W.)

Title The bifurcation of the self : the history and theory of dissociation and its disorders / Robert W. Rieber.

Publication Info. New York, NY : Springer, [2006]
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Description 1 online resource (xix, 304 pages) : illustrations.
Series Library of the history of psychological theories
Library of the history of psychological theories.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 197-202).
Contents Cover -- Contents -- Introduction -- I. A brief history of multiplicity -- Chapter 1. The roots of multiple personality disorder/dissociative identity disorder -- Seizures, Hysteria, and Dissociation: Making Sense of Mind and Brain -- Early Case Histories: Looking for Ansel Bourne in All the Wrong Places -- The Neurophysiology of the Inhibition-Excitation Continuum -- Pierre Janet -- F. W. Myers -- Morton Prince -- Boris Sidis -- Conclusion -- Chapter 2. "Nothing but god and the brain" -- A Brief Look Back -- Nothing but God and the Brain -- What Did Gall Actually Believe -- Faculties in the Brain: How Much Is Enough? -- Chapter 3. Prying open the lid: the origins of hypnosis -- Animal Magnetism and Its Links to MPD -- Conclusion -- Chapter 4. Looking inside the box, thinking onside the box -- Freud and Hypnosis: Uncovering False Memories -- The Free Association Technique -- Overdetermination -- Repression -- Sexuality -- II. Sybil: A case of multiple personalities and the natural history of a myth -- Chapter 5. The case of Sybil: the Wilbur/Schrieber version -- Chapter 6. The publication of a "psychiatric masterpiece" -- Prelude to a Mystery -- The Publication of Sybil -- The Aftermath -- The Book and the Movie: A Comparison -- Chapter 7. The myth explodes -- The Multiplicity of Multiples -- The Forgotten Tapes -- Flora -- An Analyst on Park Avenue -- The Criminal Illusion of an Experimental Principle: The Primal Scene -- The Trinity of Affinity -- What Hypnosis Is-and Is Not -- The Crucible of the Sixties -- Highlights and the Implications of the Tape Recordings -- The Reaction -- Who Is Sybil and What Is She? -- Conclusion -- III: Seminal cases of multiplicity: a history -- Chapter 8. Fourteen seminal cases -- Mary Reynolds -- Rachel Baker -- Mollie Fancher -- Ansel Bourne -- Felida X -- Marceline -- Mary Beauchamp -- Helene Smith -- Thomas Hanna -- Doris Fischer -- Norma -- John Charles Poultney -- Bridey Murphy -- Eve White/Chris Costner -- Chapter 9. Bifurcation of self: retrospective and prospective -- References -- Appendices -- 1. Three Tape Excerpts -- 2. Excerpt from the TV movie Sybil -- 3. Sybil's Letter of Denial to Dr. Corneila Wilbur and Sybil's IQ Report -- 4. Schreiber's PR Bio and Dr. Ralph Allison's Letter -- Name index -- Subject index -- Last page
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GMD: electronic resource.
Subject Schreiber, Flora Rheta.
Wilbur, C. B.
Sybil, 1923-1998.
Wilbur, C. B.
Mason, Shirley, 1923-1998.
Schreiber, Flora Rheta.
Dissociative disorders.
Dissociation (Psychology)
Personality.
Dissociative Identity Disorder -- United States -- history.
Dissociative Identity Disorder -- psychology -- United States.
Ego -- United States.
History, 19th Century -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
Hypnosis -- United States.
Psychological Theory -- United States.
Repression, Psychology -- United States.
PSYCHOLOGY -- Neuropsychology.
Dissociation (Psychology) (OCoLC)fst00895442
Dissociative disorders. (OCoLC)fst00895443
Personality. (OCoLC)fst01058667
Dissociatieve identiteitsstoornis.
Hysterie.
Hypnose.
Dissociation (Psychology)
Personality.
Multiple Personality Disorder -- history -- United States.
Multiple Personality Disorder -- psychology -- United States.
Ego -- United States.
History, 19th Century -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
Hypnosis -- United States.
Psychological Theory -- United States.
Repression -- United States.
Electronic books.
Dissociative disorders.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Other Form: Print version: Rieber, R.W. (Robert W.). Bifurcation of the self. New York, N.Y. : Springer, ©2006 0387274138 0387274146 (DLC) 2005928493 (OCoLC)69661646
ISBN 0387274146 (electronic bk.)
9780387274140 (electronic bk.)
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