Beware of the Other Side(s) von Heike Schwarz | Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction | ISBN 9783839424889

Beware of the Other Side(s)

Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction

von Heike Schwarz
Buchcover Beware of the Other Side(s) | Heike Schwarz | EAN 9783839424889 | ISBN 3-8394-2488-7 | ISBN 978-3-8394-2488-9
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Beware of the Other Side(s)

Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction

von Heike Schwarz
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.