Beware of the Other Side: Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction - Couverture souple

Schwarz, Heike

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 3837624889 ISBN 13 : 9783837624885

Editeur : Transcript Verlag, 2013

Synopsis

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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À propos de l?auteur

Heike Schwarz (Dr. phil.) teaches American studies at the University of Augsburg, Germany.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Transcript Verlag
• Date d'édition: 2013
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3837624889
• ISBN 13: 9783837624885
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 456
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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