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Beware of the Other Side(s) - Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction

English · Paperback / Softback

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This interdisciplinary study examines the still vivid phenomenon of the most controversial psychiatric diagnosis in the United States: multiple personality disorder, now called dissociative identity disorder. This syndrome comprehends the occurrence of two or more distinct identities that take control of a person's behavior paired with an inexplicable memory loss. Synthesizing the fields of psychiatry and the dynamics of the disorder with its influential representation in American fiction, the study researches how psychiatry and fiction mutually shaped a mysterious syndrome and how this reciprocal process created a genre fiction of its own that persists until today in a very distinct self-referential mode.

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Authors Heike Schwarz
Publisher Transcript
 
Languages English
Product format Paperback / Softback
Released 15.10.2013
 
EAN 9783837624885
ISBN 978-3-8376-2488-5
No. of pages 456
Dimensions 157 mm x 242 mm x 32 mm
Weight 780 g
Illustrations 2 schw.-w. Abb.
Series American Culture Studies
Subject Humanities, art, music > Humanities (general)

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