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Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder
Joan Acocella
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Description for Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder
Paperback. This work offers an expose of the epidemic of so-called Multiple Personality Disordered women in America. It describes how the US mental health industry created and exploited this bogus diagnosis, and unveils the suffering of the victims, caused by hypnotic suggestion. Num Pages: 224 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; MBP; MJN; MMJ. Category: (G) General (US: Trade); (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 156 x 229 x 19. Weight in Grams: 360.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
1999
Publisher
John Wiley & Sons Inc United States
Number of pages
224
Condition
New
Number of Pages
228
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780787947941
SKU
V9780787947941
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About Joan Acocella
JOAN ACOCELLA coauthored the textbook Abnormal Psychology: Current Perspectives, now in its eighth edition. A staff writer for The New Yorker, she is the author of Mark Morris (1993) and the editor of The Diary of Vaslav Nijinsky (1999).
Reviews for Creating Hysteria: Women and Multiple Personality Disorder
"At long last we have a volume that takes a hard look at the"epidemic" of multiple personality disorders and comes up with somesurprising conclusions." (Aaron T. Beck, M.D., University Professorof Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, University ofPennsylvania) "Creating Hysteria exposes one of the most frightening mentalroller coaster rides taken by thousands of people in modern times.Joan Acocella brilliantly ... Read more