Beware of the Other Side(s) : : Multiple Personality Disorder and Dissociative Identity Disorder in American Fiction / / Heike Schwarz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter transcript Backlist eBook Package 2000-2013
• VerfasserIn: Schwarz, Heike,
• Place / Publishing House: Bielefeld : : transcript Verlag, , [2014]; ©2013
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Edition: 1. Aufl.
• Language: English
• Series: American Culture Studies ; 8
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (456 p.)

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.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Preface -- Introduction -- Part I: History and Theory -- 1 Personalities or Personality States? -- 2 The Split of Personality: -- 3 Of Demons and Dissociation: -- 4 Shock and Trauma: -- 5 The Other Side(s): -- 6 Voices of Doubt: -- Part II: The Culture-embedded Syndrome – Multiple Personality and Dissociation in American Fiction -- 7 Brand Identity and “Culture-embedded Syndrome”: -- 8 Creating a Public Consciousness: -- 9 Fractured Minds: -- 10 “Man’s Dual Nature” – Classical Literary Texts of Dissociation: -- 11 Beyond Control: -- 12 Further Divisions: -- 13 “What is your name?”: -- Part III: Contemporary Variations in Selected Novels -- 14 “This is what Mary would have said…”: -- 15 “I know this because Tyler Durden knows this…”: -- 16 “ – textbook MPD”: -- 17 “Three! Three personalities in one…”: -- 18 “Recall what had been lost…”: -- 19 “It’s almost like there are two of me…”: -- 20 “It’s all staged…”: -- 21 Voices of Imagination: -- Conclusion -- Works Cited -- Filmography