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Rewriting the Soul: Multiple Personality and the Sciences of Memory
Twenty-five years ago one could list by name the tiny number of multiple personalities recorded in the history of Western medicine, but today hundreds of people receive treatment for dissociative disorders in every sizable town in North America. Clinicians, backed by a grassroots movement of patients and therapists, find child sexual abuse to be the primary cause of the illness, while critics acuse the "MPD" community of fostering false memories of childhood trauma. Here the distinguished philosopher Ian Hacking uses the MPD epidemic and its links with the contemporary concept of child abuse to scrutinize today's moral and political climate, especially our power struggles about memory and our efforts to cope with psychological injuries.
Book Details
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publish Date: Aug 23rd, 1998
- Pages: 346
- Language: English
- Edition: Revised - 0002
- Dimensions: 9.19in - 6.12in - 0.90in - 1.11lb
- EAN: 9780691059082
- Categories: • Psychopathology - General• History
About the Author
Ian Hacking is University Professor of Philosophy and a member of the Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology at the University of Toronto. Among his numerous works are The Taming of Chance and Representing and Intervening.
Praise for this book
"Winner of the 1995 Pierre Janet Writing Award, International Society for the Study of Dissociation"
"In this brilliant and provocative new book, Ian Hacking fixes his searching gaze on the hot topic of multiple personality. The results are remarkable.... In Hacking's hands, multiple personality emerges as a paradigmatic case study illuminating basic questions about truth, memory, fact and fiction, about knowledge, science, and identity.... [This book] treats these impossibly difficult problems of knowability in the human sciences with grace and wisdom."---Ellen Herman, Contemporary Psychology
"The details of Hacking's discussion are enthralling and illuminating. He manages to avoid altogether the sensationalism usually associated with treatments of multiple personality, providing an informative history and raising deep and important philosophical issues."---Marya Schechtman, Mind